The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-04
FOURTH Big DAY FOR
SUNS SMOKE FUND
Alderman Farley Will Hold
One Hundred Per Cent.
Benefit.
MONSTER BLOCK PARTY
Contests and Socials Help
Swell Total for Soldiers
Tobacco.

The greatest Fourth OF July in long
and glorious history is at hand. The
day we celebrate" has become the day
half the world celebrates with us.
No longer do we raise our hearts and
voices in thanks for freedom for Ameri-
cans alone. but freedom for all man
kind. The world, save the one black
spot, has adopted n new Declaration of
Independence. to take in all peoples. and
nations have united to drive autocraty
from the earth.
II Is we'll that the old fashioned
method OF celebration is not now toll
Grated here at home. Dynamite and
casualty lists are recognized as having
no proper place In the observance Of a
festival OF freedom. There will be re-
Joicing this year over the spread of de-
mocracy. over the victories of our
armies, but II will be marked by a spirit
OF thoughtfulness and renewed consccra-
ton.
Americans at home will ask them
selves how best they can advance the
cause for which the Allies are fighting.
how they. though indirectly. can have n
part in the triumphs abroad. A few of
the many postal cards addressed to THE
Sun Tobacco Fund contributors by SOL
diers over There and printed a little
further down show the way in which
hundreds of thoughtful patriots are do
ing their bit.
Perhaps they will put lot more folks
in the mood \. R., n New Yorker, was
In when he sent this letter to the fund
yesterday:
"From letter received a few days
ago from my son in France I learned
what Joy your cigarettes brought TO our
men. 1t was not pleasant for me to
realize that had not yet contributed to
. fund that gave the boys so much
pleasure and 1 hope to make up for my
remissness in the past.
Enclosed you will find as a first Of
fering my check for IS. With best
wishes for continued and increasing sue
cess in the fund, believe me-" ~
Tobacco Doesn't Peeve EN-.
1T doesn't make us bit peeved TO
have a bunch OF tobacco handed to us
when we're out Of makins'." writes Prf-
vate Theodore Kennedy. Your kind gift
certainly hit the right spot. especially
as I have been in the hospital. All of
us greatly appreciate the work being
done by the tobacco fund
Just a, line to acknowledge receipt Of
a most acceptable package Of tobacco"
121st Field Artillery. Gee. II q man
had to smoke French cigarettes he would
wear a wooden overcoat in a week."
Says r. Redding. Company #, 131st
Infantry:
Received your cigarettes while on a
detail unloading baggage In France.
They happened to catch me out OF ciga-
rettes so you can see how they we're
appreciated. The weather at present Is
Will nd Iiuh
at 10 o'clock"
The order forhidding the shipment of
packages to individual soldiers, unless
the sender has received an o., X. from
the superior officer OF his relative or
friend. has increased the value OF THE
Sun funds work, according TO Sergea mt
Arne q. Rae. 10th Engineers. who
writes:
We thank you for your contributions
to THE SUN Tobacco Fund, through
whose efforts the boys OF our camp have
received an ample supply OF smokes.
assure you that this is now doubly ap-
preciated since the recent decision OF the
Postal Department to allow the boys to
get no more packages from the folk at
home"
one hundred per cent for the smoke
fund and all expenses to he paid by AL
derman Thomas NJ. Farley is the ar
rangement outlined for to-day's events
In the Fourteenth Aldermanic district
IT will be great Fourth celebration.
and all receipts. both in the afternoon
and evening. will 60 to buy smokes for
the American soldiers who are having
their Independence Day abroad, many
OF them on the battle front.
Athletic Games for Fund 'Beueht.
The plan is Alderman Farley's own,
and the Fourteenth Assembly District
Association more than enthusiastically
Endorsed it. Starting at . 80 in Queens
borough Park. Fifty-ninth street and
Avenue A. series of important athletic
games will be held, including. a bail
game to be played for silver cup There
VIII be no admission charged. but during
the progress Of the games n collection
will be taekn UP for the tobacco fund.
monster blofk and package party
starts in the block on East Sixty-secohd
street, between First and Second ave
nues at 80, when moving pictures and
Illustrated songs will be thrown on a
screen in front Of the club house One
of these pictures will be shown for the
first time and Is sure to make "A hit II
will represent the crowd OF more than
10000 people who were Alderman Far
lcy's guests at the last May festival.
The donations which have poured in
TO swell the receipts when they are aIc-
toned OF are almost numberless. They
comprise genuine blackthorn walking
sticks for the men. furnishings of all
kinds, shoes, sc. For the women there
are gowns OF the latest mode, n beauti-
ful French bonnet. shoes and dancing
slippers and scores of foliage plants.
Towering shrubs and flowers When
these are piled In order in front OF the
club house and the flags are all flying,
flags OF our allies, with Old Glory top
ping everything, the block will be worth
traversing the city to see
II is the intention of Alderman FARLEY
and Peter Curran, chairmen OF the com
mittee or arrangements, to make this
block party so big and successful that il
Will be talked OF for months to come.
Block Party in EIdert street.
And this isn't the only block party for
the fund this evening. The Eldert Ser
vice Association will give one in Eldert
street between Broadway and Bushwick
avenue, Brooklyn. at which one of the
features Will be the raising of a service
nag bearing star for every youna man
IN the block who has gone TO the front
Sergeant Burns, formerly OF the old
Sixty-ninth Regiment, will direct the
ceremony,
The officers OF the Eldert organization
are Frank Irwin, president: John Joyce
vice-president Arthur A. Morch secre-
tary; L. e. Dowdney. treasurer; Will
lam Maggie. Sr. sergeant-at-arms. The
entertainment committee is composed OF
J. w. Irwin, chsirman John Kreamer
william Maggie, Jr,. Frank Wemmlinger
Arthur Chandler and Robert Redding.
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