The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-10-07
GIVE ME- A SMOKE
SAY WOUNDED men
First Thought Of Fighters Is
10 Get Cigarette or American
Tobacco in Any Form.
"sUN" FUND TO THE FRONT
More Benefit Block Parties Ar.
ranscd-Chinatown Also
to Help the Cause.

It frequently happens to the jubila-
ton OF THE Sun Tobacco Fund that
about the time soldier is mentioned in
dispatches for an act OF bravery q card
from him. written long before the incl
dent In which he won distir ction. comes
10 the fund for transmission to q donor.
Then that particular post card becomes
an interesting and valuable souvenir to
be treasured for all time. II requires q
wrench TO give Il up TO THE Sun fund
contributor. although II Ia his property
and not ours.
Wen. this happened during the past
week. There came along by cable a
thrilling story OF fight In which the
ssventy-seventh metropolitan division)
had done valiant work in driving the
Hun from his lines between the vesle
and Aisne rivers. There were not many
details and the fund could only hope
that the boys OF the Seventy seventh
lad shared recently in a distribution OF
SUN fund tobacco in order to have the
soace of It after the battle. but as II
cannot see across an ocean the fund had
10 take II out in hope.
One incident OF the bloody skirrnish
related how a unit of the overseas thea
trical forces had jumped in and made
itself merciful stretcher bearers, rem
dering efficient service in getting the
wounded back to the line OF FIRST aid
and actually helping to win the tight.
This was thrilling to read, too. but still
left the tobacco ration question unan-
swered,
How Actor Soldiers Helped.
Then the fund had the privilege OF
reading letter from q young actor who
had his part in this labor of mercy,
written to his people the night of the
battle. The actor Is Stanley Wood, VIII
comes OF good theatrical stock. and.
even better. fine old English fghting
stock. His mother is that clever and
finely endowed actress. Marguerite st.
John: his father is George Wood, a
former producer and manager Of
London.
What concerns the smoke fund par
ticularly in his letter is the reference
lie makes to tobacco: II clears UP the
point referred TO and which might al
ways have remained obscure, for the
Young man distinctly says that the
wounded asked FIRST of all for something
10 smoke, and he adds:
~ had a few dusty particles of smok-
ing tobacco, but the men going out to
take the places of the poor devils We
brought in threw down cigarettes which
they had got day or two before from
THE SUS and so We could give the
wounded men what they wanted"
Able to give the wounded the only
thing they craved and because of the
existence Of THE Sun Tobacco Fund
If there were only two or three dra-
matte instances where the fund had full
filled its promise and brought timely
help that existence would be Justified.
But instances are ifnumerable as the
fund itself knows. and as the donors OF
the fund know by the cards they receive
from the soldiers.
Calls Cigarettes Life savers.
To Harry Mestayer. known to most
theatregoers. Warren F. Lyle. also an
actor, writes from France on Septem-
her 13:
Many. many thanks for these cigar
cites. They are surely life savers. You
would really have to be here to realize
just how precious they are to every
American soldier" Lyle is of the An
mex Forces and gives his A. P. o. as
number 753.
C. A. Bogert. first class sergeant United
States Infantry (number deleted). sends