Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-01-25
LETTERS FROM MEN
At FRONT EXPRESS
THANKS FOR TOBACCO
People Who Contributed to
Fund Through The journal
Beginning to Receive Notes
of Appreciation

OF Appreciation
over the seas in France, boys Of AT
lanta and boys OF the south are taking
great store OF comfort from real Amer
lean tobacco, not to be had for love or
money in the French shops. And back
home in America, Atlanta people and
southern people who made that tobacco
possible through subscriptions TO The
Journals fund are beginning to "e
flooded with postcards and letters OF
thanks.
The conclusion of those letters is all
the same send us more" they cry;
and send us more." What is Atlantas
and the south'S answer to that message
from their sons? 1t should be this, EN-
closed find my check for---to The
Journals Tobacco fund. Let's keep the
fires burning in the pipes of our SOL
der boys!"
1t was many months ago The Jour
nal started it's Tobacco fund for 'ur
soldiers in France. The response was
widespread and gratifying. 1t was en-
during, too, but of late, the fund has
been over-shadowed by other interests
Yet the need is still there, our boys
still want tobacco. And they will want
it so long as the war lasts. 1t is The
Journals purpose to keep the Tobacco
scriptions will mean a steady flow Of
tobacco between the states and France
and a steady flow in return OF such let
ters as this, received by The Journal:
Letter from Soldier
SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE,
Dec. q. 1917.
Atlanta Journal.
Dear Friends: Received the
package of smokes and want to
thank The Journal and the people
of Atlanta especially r. r. Powell,
whose card was enclosed with the
box.
'Since my arrival here ! have
known what IL is to be without
American tobacco, especially cigars
and cigarettes, and you may rest
assured that the package is fully
appreciated.
"The boys sometimes get lone
some. Some of them sit with
nobody loves me- look on their
faces. and l think that if some of
the Atlanta girls write them let
ter that it will cheer them up
lot / will receive. the letters and
act as postmaster to start it Off
will distribute the letters to good
looking boys. You can state to the
Atlanta girls that the French girls
do not make such a terrific nit with
the boys, that the talk is always
about some one in the states.
MY regiment was the very first
to do actual service. Was the first
regiment rendered to the French
government by President Wilson and
our boys were the first to be at
tackled by the Germans.
eff some of your readers want
to make our boys happy, let them
send The Atlanta Journal TO some
one over here. 1t will be read over
many times.
I'VE are over here to whip the
kaiser and Atlanta can rest assured
that the job is going to be done in
firstclass fashion as soon as the
word to go ahead is given.
Yours,
WILLIAM NJ. BLAKE.
Thirteenth Engineers Railway,
United States Army, France"
What do you think of that letter. Miss
Atlanta? wouldn't you like to wipe off
that nobody loves me" look from some
soldiers face? Then send your contri-
button to The Journals tobacco fund
your name will be forwarded with il
and in return you'll get a letter and
establish a correspondence with some
lonely soldier of Uncle Sam.
If any who have received letters will
bring them to The Journal they will
be gladly acknowledged and where the
contents are interesting, will be pup
lished.
The above letter is but typical of
many that are being received in At
lanta as the result of The Journals to-
bacco fund. They are a long time get
ting back, but then, the tobacco was q
long time getting over there after 1t
got started, and letters of thanks met
with the same delay. Some of them, per
haps, were lost in transit.
AS fast as the money accumulates
from subscribers, The Journal sends
the tobacco forward, enough to sup
ply unit at a time. Already
there have been supplied with
smokes the Seventeenth engineers, re
cruited i'm Atlanta; the One Hundred
and Fifty-first machine gun battalion
and the One Hundred and Sixty-seventh
infantry, both formed of southern boys
i'm the Rainbow division, and number
of other uits with southern boys in the
ranks.
The tobacco in each case is sent
through the Red Cross to the command
ing officers of the units, who have
agreed gladly to act as the distributors
Enough is sent to give every man
kit, and each kit contains enough
smokes to last him several weeks. In
every shipment, the effort is made to
meet the needs of southern boys par
ticularly.
The Journal is unable to assure sub
scribers that their gifts will so to any
particular person named, but it does
assure them that the names of the sub
scriber will be sent with each lot of
tobacco, so that every man who re-
ceives a kit will also receive a postal
card oil. which he can write back thank
ing the person who sent the tobacco
Already many of these cards have been
| received postal cards in reply.