The sun., 1918-10-01
FUND GREAT WORK
70 BOY OYER THERE
Soldiers Ready to Complete
Little Job" Of Defeat
ing Germany.
THANKS 90 TO CHANGE
Money for Smokes Comes Pour
ing In From Many
Block Parties.

In some OF the recent post cards re-
,eiyed from tho fighting men the feeling
IA dtscernible that without undue ella
zion or overconhdencs they begin TO see
they are half through what they call
their little Sob" Indeed a letter. not
a card. that, Corporal vandlver OF Com
many Il. Seventeenth Engineers (Rail-
vay), wrote to n fund donor in the Sec
ond week of September would indicate
mat he was clairvoyant and had fore
seen the armistice craved by Bulgaria.
IL am writing a long letter 50 that
YOU may have some idea OF how much
the cigarettes you sent me through THE
srN Tobacco Fund were appreciated
and what long felt want they satisfied.
I'VE are getting on and by the time
you receive this you will hear that
some Of our enemies have weakened,
but for all that our task Is only half
finished.
"of course you are keeping up with
the progress OF the A. L. F.. and GER
tainly hope and really believe that you
and countless other good Americans
are satisfied with US. ] am doing my
, bit with a railroad co 5truction regi-
ment. and my sacrifices are not as
great as some. We are all ready IL
make any that are necessary. and We
are all ready to move up to the front be-
fore the big show 10 over.
The smokes have served more than
the immediate purpose. which ia to
satisfy a smokers appetite. They have
sometimes been all that we had to re-
mind US that we were not forgotten
by the dear folks at home"
Private George Smith, Headquarters
Nat
mer New York Newspaper man. in a
private letter, has this TO say about the
smoke fund: THE great work Of THE
SuN in supplying smokes to soldiers
isn't appreciated by the folks back
home. No one can appreciate how
much a smoke means until you get
stuck some time where you can't get
one There doesn't seem TO be any
tobacco In France except that which
comes from America"
This IL not such an unusual angle
from which to view the work Of the
smoke fund. Appreciation may be a
little delayed at home, but It is fully
on time abroad. The soldiers know the
work from personal benefit and the Joy
OF helping them to comfort is COM
pensatiun enough
Word to the Fair Ones.
Sergeant Russell L. Kenny. Air Ser
vice. Headquarters Detachment, Ameri-
can Post Office 752, in a letter to a
woman donor sends over a little con-
ISOLATION to his countTywomen along with
his thanks for smokes These have been
hearing too much Of late to be perfectly
happy about the charm the French
girAs possess for our fighting men. There
are returned travellers who 20 SO far as
10 say that half our boys have become
so fascinated that they will marry and
may stay abroad after the war. Absurd
Sergeant Kenny disposes of this rurnor
in thanking THx Sun donor, who not
only sent him smokes but also her
photograph. Ito writes:
How the boys envy me! You can
imagine them turning green and all
sorts or colors when 1 show them tho
picture. or course they want to know
all about 1t, but just smile and look
wise
anyway I haven't seen any OF the
originals over here that can come up
10 my picture. and you know that this
country is noted for pretty women"
To Harry Mestayer and THE SUN
fund Warren E. Lyle. in Base Hospital
- Is deeply grateful for cigarettes.
Thanks to you and the other members
Of the theatrical profession who have an
generously remembered us through the |
smoke fund. There's nothing quite so
good as real American smoke after a |
hard days work for our cause"
II there is band of Sun donors who
deserve lots OF grateful cards that band
ls represented under the general title
various Members OF the Stock Ex-
CAange who have been generous weekly |
contributors. To them Sergeant Marshall |