The sun., 1918-11-12
Will Need Tobacco Even More
Than Now on Garrison
and Patrol Duty.
GREAT BENEFIT TONIGHT
Bright Letters From Men Over
There Urge New Dona-
tons for. Holidays.

ever to be a more fitting time that these
victory days to collect the-money to
buy the smokes and get them over to
the boys behind the triumphant colors"
This indeed is the time to give the cash
the smoke fund needs TO buy the to-
bGcco.
Is there any man, smoker or nom
smoker. whose soul Is SO dead to graft
tude that he does not want the men
who have given us this victory to have
what they want before they start back
home?
What THE Sun Tobacco Fund needs
in order to guarantee the soldier boys
abroad plenty o; smokes during the
holidays is s9I,s57.39.
Last Saturday its lack was round
hundred thousand. so 1t will be seen that
its drive for Christmas and New Year
smokes has started In at auickstep.
More even than when they were fight
ing in the thick OF dramatic events will
these soldiers need their smokes from
home. The work they now have to do.
necessary as It is. will have many mo-
snents of tedium and American tobacco
is the thing to stir their spirits.
Making the Yankees Happy.
A member Of a detachment of the
Twenty-ninth Engineers writes to THE
SUN Tobacco Fund. He Is Private T.
F. Rowe. This Is what he says:
GENTLEMEN: We nave just received
some of the smokes provided by your
fund. You know just what we want and
YOU know just how to make us happy
and content. There Is no way for us
to provide ourselves with American to-
Dacco, and 1t Is the only thing we can
smoke. The British stun has no taste
and the French 'tabac' gives us heart
burn. So we have had to depend on
your gifts for making life at the front
comfortable"
THE SUN Tobacco Fund wishes every
subscriber could read these words. Any
Of them who have made a sacrifice to
help the soldiers to tobacco must feel
amply repaid.
Arthur J. Zuehl. first class sergeant,
Quartermaster's Corps. First Corps
school, wrote on October 20 to donor
Dorothy Sheridan:
The package of tobacco received.
appreciated II very much. and had
great smoke on you. dear Miss Sheri-
dan. l am always happy to get news
and anything from the good old u. $. A.,
but would rather get tobacco than any
thing else, and II am not asking too
much for my comrades and myself
wish you would do it over again.
thank you for kindness shown to SOL
diers over here
Sergeant Jack A. Elliott writes:
The brigade which I am in is taxi
ins a rest now for several days, as we
rave just been relieved from the
trenches. We have had shells falling
all around headquarters. I wore my
gas mask. as the shells were gas and
shrapnel. but never stopped work. That
IS about all will be allowed to tell you
about over here.
BE good and Just wait on US boys pa
tiently. for we are all doing our bit and
are running the Kaiser or the map. Oh.
l almost forgot to tell you I liked the
cigarettes fine"
Sergeant Joe Blankenship writes:
AT times tobacco Is very scarce In
France, and even a small contribution
comes as a life saver. We are very
grateful and know that you people won't
forget US as the holidays draw near"
Private Lawrence Fl. Jansen, Radio
Section. Signal Corps. says:
Your cigarettes 20 good among the
wireless operators. All the boys want to
thank the men of Post & McCord."
To the New York Golf Club Sergeant
writes this cheerful letter:
we get papers telling US how the
folks are backing US up with money,
food, &c, but your gift OF smokes brings
it to us more wildly. especially to Us
fellows in the ranks, that you remember
US Think OF US again. for we may be
over here some time yet"
The above was written October p, as
was this note from Sergeant Emory
Lathrop. Detachment 1l6. who thanks a
sun fund donor for cigarettes and adds
We're prepared for a stay more or
less long after the war. In that case
We trust THE Sun Tobacco Fund will
think of US again."
This is a trust that the fund will not
betray; 1t intends to think of the Ameri-
can soldier as long as he Is away from
home.
II have been over here ten months
now" writes Norman V. Cornell of 10th
Engineers. land I've been out of smok-
ing material many times The tobacco
gifts always como at opportune times
and when ] consume them / think of
the dear little girls back in Gods coun-
try"
Artillery benefit This Evening.
It will be "a gala night tonight, ut
sequel to last nights gayety in the
united states Theatre when the Eighth
Coast Artillery gives its vaudeville bene-
fit for the smoke fund. The house has
been donated by the manager, Mr. Grob
the music Is the band of the corps, and
as all performers are volunteers the net
proceeds which are to come to the fund
correspond pretty closely to the gross
The theatre is situated at Webster ave-
nue. and is5th street, and down town
friends of the smoke fund ought to go
up to enjoy the show.
Even II Germany should surrender"
wrote a contributor to the fund on Sat-
urday, "the boys will need smokes for
n long time and am enclosing my
check to help your good work along"
J. 8. Langford of the Overlook Poultry
Farm wrote this and II will hold good
for a while.
Judge Edward Griffith Of Vermont ap-
pears again as donor; he also sends
money contributed by persons whom he
assisted with questionnaires.
How the Fund stands To-day.
THE SUN and THE EVENING SUN 100000
United Cigar Stores boxes. including
special 596 OF gross sales day., S7.2O5.7s
Otherwise acknowledged. .............. 2e4 655 %
New contributions. ....".......... CATS
shipped, and paid for. ,ass, 10 e '''''''-''"
Received through the Schultz cigar
stores OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 36,1l6s6
Grand total.......... .........,.,... 1902 O42 81
New contributions are:
Mary, Grace, Alexander and John