The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-10
COTTON AUCTIONED
FOR SMOKES FUND
First Bale Of Georgia Crop
Brings $3.50 at New York
Exchange.
SOLDIERS SEND THANKS
Cigarettes Follow Them to
Fighting Lines and Cheer
Them in Battle.

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Of cotton from the new Georgia crop
would not do anything except It's bit for
the American fighter abroad. The repu-
tatlon OF the cotton growing States was
staked on 1t.
The event happened yesterday when
the first bale reached here from Savan-
nah, Ga 1t was auctioned in front OF
tho Cotton Exchange and first sold for
the benefit Of the Belgian Relief Fund.
That also was truly Southern. Then the
purchaser put It up, saying:
II want this bale. the forerunner OF
a treat crop which is going to help us
win the war, to be sold for the benefit
Of THE SUN Tobacco Fund"
This little speech was cheered and
Samuel Newburger, the original 'pur-
chaser, bought the cotton In again for
$3.50, which he will devote to the pur-
chase Of smokes for our soldiers.
The thanks Of the soldiers for smokes
received through THE sun fund come
not always in single Acknowledgements.
Witness the following card dated less
than a month ago indeed. on the famous
day Of the Chateau Thierry fight. The
soidier who writes for Company G,
Fourth Infantry. makes no reference to
anything unusual going on. He Is t.
p. Thompson. sergeant OF that company.
He says:
"The $50 members Of the company
each received to-day full package OF
American cigarettes. and they were to
most of US a much priced luxury. one
which cannot be purchased in this coun-
try. When tobacco from home reaches
one at the front II Is highly appreciated
and enjoyed"
Thanks From Machine Gunners.
In the same way a number of men of
Company d, Eighth Machine Gun Bat
TALON, Third Division. Join in thanking
THE SUN and all contributors to Its
fund" and sign their names: Corporal
Leo McGaffich, John Gallaher. Edward
Caring, John Echols. Isaac Trimble,
Lawrence Brady. F. Lee and Frazer.
From July IA to % were exciting days
in that Somewhere in France" from
which these two cards and several hun
dred others Just received were written,
and from a line or perhaps but a word
1t Is conveyed that the writers are on
the front lines in the severest kind OF
battle action. Nothing OF furry or I'M
due excitement permeates these simple
Acknowledgements Of the soldiers. Only
a few words, but how meaning these
words are when tobacco from home
reaches one at the front 1t Is highly ap-
preciated and enjoyed"
Who wouldn't like to be the man who
sent that particular tobacco which
reached Sergeant T. P. Thompson on
Chateau Thierry day when. or little
later at Seringes, the American soldiers
performed deeds OF valor which nobody
will forget, least of all the Germans who
fled before them? The man who said
"Ill buy a package of cigarettes for my
self and send dollar to THE SUN fund
10 buy four or five packages for the sol
diers' would be tickled to think his gift
of tobacco was the one that cheered
Sergeant Thompson on that busy" day
for the Hun.
This tobacco was sent over through
THE SUN Tobacco Fund from the Demo
cratic Club of New York. 1t might have
been an individuals gife and why not
take a chance now and say to yourself
MY gift Of what money l can spare to
THE SUN to buy tobacco for soldier Is
going straight to the front and he'll
probably smoke 1t right after he's been
doing things!
Chance to Help Soldier.
Such a thought in the heads Of a few
thousand smokers would be a fund
booster. in truth. Let the reader of II
decide now to be one of the thousands
lie little knows how quickly his money
viii be turned into tobacco and how soon
it will be transported across the sea and
placed in the hands of the fighting
American soldier There's no red tape
about the way THE SUMS Tobacco Fund
does things.
So dig down to-day, a few minutes
after you have read these cards from
the front dated on July days that are
80 be ever memorable in the history OF
our American army.
Read what Corporal A l.. Laundrie
writes on one of these splendid days. He
tells of the receipt Of THE SUN tobacco
5ust in the nick of time for he was all
out of smokes, and adds:
II was at the time 1t came located al
the front in the front line doing my bit
but since then have been sent back to
the line of resistance. In either place
4 was a godsend"
But TO go back to our statement that
the luxury OF tobacco brings out grail
tude by wholesale. here Is another card
from Mess Sergeant Company d. who
writes for all his company and dates II
thus quantity: Where the Big Guns
Bust EN-. This evening when the men
~ Company d came back from drill II
vas my privilege and also pleasure to
give out ESQ packages Of cigarettes
American cigarettes You may imagine
tow the boys received them and they all
unite in sending you many thanks. We
have been unable to get American
smokes for long time and the English
tobacco would be the ruination OF us"
And to D. A. Schultz. a liberal fund
donor, sixteen grateful soldiers sign their
names to this card for tobacco received
through the fund. They are Edwin f.
Smith, Edward c. Anderson, Allie L.
Bass. Robert H. Byrum. John C. Carter
William l." Davenport, James L. Faison
Charles Y Hoffman, John II. Donnald
Walter NJ, Martin. John c. Poore. An
drew j. Hickman, Claude NJ Smoam
Norman d. Nelson, Carroll A. Douglass
and Bacle n Horton.
Made Him Dream.
Here's soldier whose gtt of smokes
makes him dream of Pittsburg Although
he does not say so. no doubt the Smoky
City Is his home and that Is why in his
happy moments he dreams of it.. He
gays: They were some smokes, those
THE Sun Tobacco Fund has just dis
tributed to us. Those / got made me
dream of Pittsburg and the good old
I S. A" This Pittsburgite's name IL
Charles NJ. Whetsell of Headquarters
Company, 3l9th Infantry.
And now read this from Corporal Ju'
Illus n Davis. and after. you have reat
II see II you can resist sending in YOU
GIT to swell THE SUN fund. 1t is writ
ten to the same donor as in the case