The sun., 1918-07-02
independence Week Events
Expected to Mean Joy
for Troops.
NEW CONTRIBUTIONS 1920
Soldier Tells How Every Can,
teen in Paris Was Cleaned
Out of Tobacco. b..

THE SrN Tobacco Fund starts soberly
On Its upward climb again. Ad astra ,
There are heights attainable beyond
those 1t has triumphantly scaled. and In
It's second year the fund moves in a more
and more sure footed way. 1t fears not
the stars. Ad astra!
Nor had the first day Of Its second
year passed to the meridian before II
rad been called by half a dozen people
10 do half dozen things II cannot do.
l. From a lady: Can you send over
Cigarettes to my husband who is with
MS regiment near Chateau Thierry? BY
sending a prompt answer with enclosed
envelope you will oblige."
.. From gentleman: 1.-THE post Office
'efuses to take package of tobacco for
my son who is in the A. f. F. in France.
VIII you undertake to get 1t over for
rer'
3 From a mother: will you kindly
send me word IL cigarettes are accepta-
Ne. as we'll as money, for the Tobacco
Fund.-
4 From young lady: II have a
friend with the old Sixty-ninth and am
sending you some tobacco for him.
Please send it as soon as possible, for he
las had nothing to smoke in ever SO
lcng.'
And SC. and &c. The other requests
are similar.
Let us begin the new fund year with
? complete understanding. It will prove
reteration to many. but they must try
10 ne calm No. we cannot send ciga-
rettes or tobacco to individuals. No. we
cannot interfere Cor try to) with post
once regulations rendered necessary by
he needs of transportation. No. ciga-
rettes are not &C acceptable as money.
- these are sent without our knowledge
We try to sell them and we add the
money received from the sales to the
fund. but this puts the fund to a good
deal of trouble and takes up time that 1t
could spend more probably for the COM
FORT OF American soldiers We are sorry
hat the member of the Seventy-seventh
division has been smokeless tor SO long
hut we feel comforted in the belief that
he. with the rest Of his comrades. shared
in the most recent distribution of THE
SrN funds tobacco.
Limitations on Fund'a scope.
IN fact the smoke fund Is sorry about
good many things that 1t cannot do
with a little thought it will be patent 10
anybody that the fund couldn't individ-
uallze in its distribution even IL il
wanted to The field II covers or tries
10 cover Is vast and daily grows vaster
ire need OF smokes is greater than ever
and the donors OF THE Sun fund know II
a, well as the newspaper does. Every day
transport starts from some American
mort bearing from $500 to 5000 mer
aboard Some OF them have tobacco
when they go aboard. but not all OF
hem, more's the pity. and as soon as
tnt al in EN-ay
counted among THE Suns proteges
The fund can't undertake to furnish
hem smokes while in transit. but they
won't he long In France before they will
AVE some Of the smokes. Other orCan!
satIons exist to supply the soldiers witt
tobacco before they enter that category
and after they have left it: the field
where the fund trespasseth not is wide
one. To try to do more than It does
better TO cover a bigger need than i
DOES, would he disastrous.
To do It's best and supply toba eco II
the places where it Is most needed TIL
Sr% Tobacco Fund IS obliged to depend
IN It's growing family of donors. Th
'sa large family, but II must keep en-
arrng. Those who have given mus
give again, those who give resularl!
should try to increase their eivings
hose who haven't given should al ono
dig down" The fund lives by the gen
srosity Of tho friends of the American
arh.ing man who know what Tobacco
lreans to him. Il is an essential. II
can't get along without it,
How many extracts from soldiers
thanks TO donors have been printed her
70 prove this thing? So many that t
go on Is to make of the fund a kin
n katydid who says an undispute'
W.
therefore this lSatydid will give but on
hit OF additional testimony OF the pop
MARTY of the smokes to-day 1t
from an infantry private who sign
Charlie D. Carpenter:
y got some cigarettes to-day FJun
81 and was 'tickled to death to &c
them. tell you 1t was treat to &c
sorething from America and that some
hing good to smoke. smiled an
everybody smiled
From the Office OF The Stars an
Stripes at |, rue des ltalicns, the &c
tor, one Hudson Mawley who Ia On
says he is) the busiest man in some
what busy European continent. come
he following commendatory letter:
know OF no worthier war charity tina
OF a few hundred thousand men owe
here who would like nothing bette
than the opportunity to say the sam
Every canteen in Paris Is cleaned out Il
day dune 81 with no relief in sight e2
cep' from French smokes.
II have run into Hunt (Frazier Hun
author OF the Yaphank Bonnie stories
three or four times while he has bee
over here and had some mighty interes
ing dope from him about the new arm
Part of the crowd is. i understand wa
up on the British front drinking tea Il
breakfast and doing other outlandis
md un-American things. Thompso
ate Of the Fighting Engineers, Is vii
The Stars aud Stripes now. looking we
IN spite Of his long stay in the hospit
and with a proud young scar on
wrist where a bullet nipped him.
Curtis a corporal. at last repor
doing fine, Is with the old Sixt'
ninth as far as / know. an outht tn
has been exceedingly Croix dc Guerrt
and exceedingly deserving thereof fro
all reports
with hope OF seeing THE SUN and u
well known Goddess OF Ad LIB befo
the FIRST Tuesday after the hrst MO
day IN November, 1920, | am, nc.
With apology and the statement IN
the writer OF this letter Is one OF ''TI
SUNS young men" and 40 interestii
TO everybody--at least 1t Is hoped 30
the remark with which he opens h
quaint uncomfortable letter, that abo
the value (recognizcd) of the smo
fund over there. may be allowed
emphasize itself. The names mentione
SIS will be surmised, are OF SUN er
ployees who have Joined the colors.
Don't forget this remark from an @
nert On thu ground: u know OF