The sun., 1919-05-23
PREFER AMERICAN
,SKOKES TO GERMAN
Hbldiers on the Rhine Send
Thanks for Cigarettes to
. "Sun" Fund Donors.
DOUBT HARD LUCK TALES
Prominent Artists to Sing al
.EBenefit at Little Club on
Sunday Evening.

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naturally are the best correspondents at
the present time that the donors of THE
Sun Tobacco Fund have in Europe.
! They have time to write and much to
write about. In the batch of mail last
10 be received from the Army Of Occu-
ration, which lies along the Rhine with
ffs centre at Coblenz, there were cards
TO contributors that were mailed at
cledbach, Freilingen. weroth and He'll
enfod. These are villages in the Rhine
Valley that are very little known here.
While the object of this correspond
ence Is to thank the donors to the fund
for tobacco sent over to them the SOL
diers rarely stop at thanks nowadays,
lives and activities or lack OF activity
with side lights thrown on the Germans
among whom they now live.
Leonard Henderson OF Company d,
Eighteenth infantry. addressed this let
Ter to the Atlantic Yacht Club on May
o.
There is no doubt that the people Of
this country would like to see US out of
IT. but they don't say so. They are
willing to show US around and are po-
lite, but never obtrude themselves and
when they talk together they give
Americans fits I don't know this Of
myself, but my chum, who speaks the
language. says he has heard them often.
asIf all the German country looks like
that around here then II did not even
know there was a war going on. These
- ~ Mi A~rA
the meals down with plenty Of beer and
sre hungry for a bite to eat bed time.
I am told that the way to tell IL a
country has suffered. say in a siege Is
% Judge by the children. The childran
around here are fat and healthy. had
good strong clothing and good leather
boots during the cold weather and sure
iy did not show signs of having had any
fardships to endure. These young ones
Cont like the Yankees and are not
afrnid. like their parents are. to say 50.
II would have to see the signs of
distress they tell about existisg In the
anterior OF Germany before 1 take any
stock in their hard luck stories"
Thanks Sent to Public school.
Privates John Lloyd Killen and Juan
Martinez Of Company I. Twenty third
Infantry. Second Division. write Gled-
bach. Germany, at the head of a card
which they sent over to Public School
~, reading thus:
Esteemed Friends: The tobacco do
nation has just been received and very
thankfully received too Please >cept
our thanks for same
Sergeant Joseph Masonis, Corporal
Nicklos and Private Harry Heck OF
Company B. Twenty-sixth Infantry
write to donor John J. Lutz saying
I'VE and our fellow comrades have to.
day (May p received your tobacco and
~ appreciate 1t very much. It Is moi
possible for US to get tobacco save the
kind the Germans smoke and that Is moi
the kind We Hike. Such smokes we have
bad for two months or so have been the
: roll your own kind and we were very
tired of them long ago. So the real
cigarettes you sent were a blessing un-
disguised. Thank you very kindly"
Several letters come from weroth
Germany, among them one from George
II Blair. Second Lieutenant of Infan-
try, who tells the donor that his gift
OF tobacco through The SUN Tobacco
Fund proved most acceptable. Then he
goes on to say:
I'VE are well Off here, without much
70 do and sometimes lonely. 1t Is
natural that we should wish to be re-
placed by the regulars as soon as may
be for we are not liked here and we
want to 60 home. However, the pre-
yailirg feeling Is not one OF discomfort
The boys are wise enough to know that
this work We are doing had to be done
and they are glad to be useful to a coun.
Try that has produced SO many faithful
friends of the soldier. Again thankins
you for myself and my men,"
Mile. Dore nj the I,fttIe club
Mile. Adrienne Dore. who will appea,
at the benefit for THE SUN Tobacco
Fund to be held at the Little Club In
the Forty-fourth Street Theatre Build
ing, Is not like the usual entertainer. but
has very personal art. 1t Is that oil
the chanson which claims Paris for Its
home, and however unprovincial we may
claim to be II taxes US a little time tc
appreciate each representative of thi:
art and to get acquainted with the ar.
fist. Mile. Dore appeared first in the
Century Roof productions and then wa.
stolen away from the footlights by 50
ciety, which wanted her for its own en-.
tertainments. She scored a really re-
markable success in drawing rooms, fol
her songs are particularly suited to ar
Intimate atmosphere. In the Little Clut
she will have conditions in her favor.
Other entertainers at this party are tc
include Miss Elizabeth Brice, VIII Nor
rtssey, Martin Culhane and Harry Car
roll. Miss Lillian Bradley, who is ar
ranging a party OF her own to take plac.
at the Hotel Commodore on wednesda,
Of next week. will alco sing. There ar,
numerous volunteers. and Manager Boal
OF the Little Club is preparing a pro
gramme which will be sui generis b,
promptly excusing artists who would
like TO take part unless their act is "dif
ferent." In doing this he wishes to b,
left unhampered by the publication O.
too many names. Suffice 1t to say tina
the party will be entertained by NOR,
than a score OF prominent artists, eac'
Of whom. like those whose names hav,
been mentioned. has a cachet OF his own
Gaillard T. Boag and James Thomp
son of the Palais Royal are convinced
that this party at the Little Club will
restore Broadway to the position II helS
IN the early career of the smoke fund
which was one close 10 the top OF donors
The interest IN the Sunday night part,
ie wide spread, donations from dealer
and purveyors to the club are pilInl
up. and from that source alone a gooC
deal of money will come Besides thi
Manager Boag has some original idea
OF stimulating generosity in the club
guests which he will be glad to put int,
play next Sunday night II II is neces
eary. From the look of the chart o
. reservations and the names appended (,
these. representing a class that has al
ways been enthusiastic about the smok
fund, he will not have to try out hi
} plans.
Don't forget that the party starts a
. o'clock next Sunday night.