The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-30
FIGHTERS LETTERS Z
HELP SMOKE FUND
Appreciation From the Front
Brings More Money, Es-
pecially From 'Repeaters.'
AID GROWS WITH ARMY
Block Celebrations Enroll
Many in Ranks Of Soldiers
Tobacco Friends.

One hundred and twenty-nne years
ago and about the end Of the month OF
September. Congress voted for the es-
Enlistment OF a standing army in the
United States. Its size was to be $40
men. There vas no SUN Tobacco Fund
then and no care seemed to have been
taken to provide this solace to the vet
Grams of the Colonial army.
There is sure some difference now, to
express II in II familiar way. and the
existing smoke fund fathered and moth
cred by THE SUN appreciates the mag
nitude of it's task. 1t never falters,
however tremendously great becomes
the American Expeditionary Force. And
vet to expect to supply the tobacco
necessities Of a growing two millions OF
men might we'll stagger a human or
ganization. H. would stagger THE SUN
were 1t not for the fact that as the
army grows. 80 grows the band of dom
ors who support THE SUN Tobacco Fund.
While they increase the fund is safe
and its work will cease only with their
desertlon Of the cause.
Nevertheless this band OF sympathetic
people must be embarrassing. Every
fund donor should not only become n
repeater, but he should bring In others
TO join him. Why not do a little mis-
boosters? Send In your own subscrip-
ton. TO be sure. and then persuade your
neighbor that he is still little back
ward, no matter how much he has lent
on Liberty bonds. IL he does not become
q contributor to THE SUN Tobacco Fund.
who Can Resist Helpingf
No powers OF persuasion can work
better results to the fund than the SOL
diers' mail. These postal cards, coming
from the front lines and the trenches
in less than three weeks to the donors
of the fund are magnetic In their APP
peal. Who can resist a fighting man
who writes after ten days of sharp
fighting. when he has not removed his
clothes hardly slept, and eaten on the
run. that his greatest solace has been
smoking tobacco or cigarettes received
from an unknown friend through the
medium of the fund? Certainly the
donors can't resist and shortly after the
arrival of n batch of soldiers cards in
come new contributions from accus-
toned donors.
Thus the Nyack Fire Department IL
sure to repeat" when II gets, as 1t will
tomorrow this card from the front
written September 9 by Sergeant Leon
ard Kane, Private Joseph Friedman and
Private William r. Hirschland Of Ord
nance Department .. American Post
Office 7l3:
I'VE want to thank you. gentlemen.
for your kind thoughtfulness In furnish
ing smokes for the boys over here
You can not possibly appreciate just
what a cigarette means to a soldier We
also want to thank the folks back home
tGod bless 'em) for their kind dona-
tons"
Private Peat can appreciate the COM
fort OF tobacco because he has been
lover there" so he knows the sincerity
Of the thanks of Sergeant Troy J. Lynch,
Headquarters, 1O5th Supply Train:
Somewhere in France, September O.
1918. When you put this card in the
package of cigarettes you wondered
whose hands they would fall into. BY
chance they fell into mine, and words
are hard to find TO tell you how much
I enjoyed them. Thank you ard hope
that we will meet soon back in the
States"
Lofts stable boys, who made a gen.
erous contribution to THE SUN Tobacco
Fund last winter, will feel glad they did
70 and will surely make another when
this card comes to them to whom II is
addressed The date of 1t Is Septem-
Der IL. only eighteen days ago, think
OF IT.
Tobacco received and most highly
appreciated. We had none and We were
lot of gloomy boys till your gift the
tobacco through THE sun. came. Wish
could tell you how much real pleas