The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-28
BREAK RANKS, BUT
CAN'T FORGET FUND
Troops Continue to Send In
Thanks for Tobacco After
Rehabilitation.
SMOKES FILL BIG NEED
More Grateful for Carton Than
Ever Before in Life, Sol
dicr Writes.
SMOKES FILL BIG NEED

Letters from soldiers who have been
demobilized are arriving to donors In
care of THE Sun Tobacco Fund, written
| from their homo towns. In some cases
| these letters amplify the card Of thanks
which the soldier dispatched while he
which the soldier despatched while ht
tons are made why the recipient OF the
fund smokes waited until he returned
home before making acknowledgment OF
| a tobacco gift.
donor Miss Mabel Crooke from Walter
Reeves. who is safe back home in Woods
town, New Jersey:
When received the package OF to-
bacco could not write much, as I was
In hospital and any effort was painful.
That's long past now and here am this
18th of June at home, free and well.
II carried a memo. with your name on
1t, intending to write as soon as 1 was
out of the hospital in France. But they
hurried us on to a transport and did
not have time. Now that am home I
can thank you for your lovely gift. 1t
sure gave me comfort I should be
pleased to hear II you receive my word
of appreciation and my thanks"
Quite often q soldier found that the
postcard sent along by THE SIN with
the smokes he received in Europe was
too small to contain all he felt in regard
to II. SO either on the ship bringing him
back to this country or shortly after his
arrival here he sat himself down to write
n complete letter.
Il got a whole carton to myself"
writes one soldier or ex-soldier, in the
last distribution OF sun tobacco where I
was and so big and welcome a gift de-
mands more acknowledgment than 1 can
put on n postal card. ! did send one
back to the donor of the tobacco from
Germany, but 1t did not satisfy me.
When a smoker like me gets SO much to-
bacco all at once. especially after he has
been out OF smokes for days, he Is In a
pretty Joyful mood. was, and II II
had been possible would have sat right
down and written q long letter.
Great Appreciation shown.
There are good many things
about Germany and the Germans that
the people of this country don't know,
although in the last four or five years
they have learned lot. 1t makes me
sick when I hear anybody say that we
have been too severe with them. guess
II could tell some of the things / know
anybody hearing them would not hold
that opinion. But I imagine the late
happenings over there have opened the
eyes Of people to how untrustworthy that
nation is
Il hope my thanks sent over at the
time the tobacco reached me were re-
ceived. I truly was more thankful for
that carton than I ever was for any
thing In my life. And as think OF how
much good It did me believe become
more and not less thankful"
Mrs w. r. Lawton is a fund donor
who received a card written at walsdorf,
Germany. but posted in this country
The writer was c. H. Tanner, whose
home is at Marietta, Okla. He was for-
merly OF Machine Gun Company a57.
His card brought over by himself, says:
We opened the package that contained
a card with your name on May 81 in
Walsdorf But we could not mall any
thing then because we were on our way
home. So l put the card I wrote (this
one) In my pocket. meaning TO mail 1t as
soon as We arrived in the States We
appreciated the tobacco very much"
On June 3 Private Herbert A. MelIer
OF Battery A, Fifth Field Artillery, wrote
to Miss Margaret Driscoll from Hunds-
dorf. Germany. saying; your most well
come apd useful gift OF tobacco was re-
ceived here on Sunday and 1t was greatly
appreciated. All the boys OK Battery A
had share OF the smokes and all Join
me in sending you our best wishes and
many thanks"