The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-16
CALLS FOR TOBACCO
GROW WITH PEACE
Soldiers Joy at Receiving
Smokes as Great as Dur
ing War.
CARDS RETURN THANKS
Fund Wants to Make Coming
Week a Banner One of Big
Contributions.
CARDS RETURN THANKS

Conditions that prevailed to prevent
postal shipments OF tobacco during the
active period OF the war still prevail
end THE SUN Tobacco Fund is to-day,
Hs It was in 1917-191S, importuned fire.
Quently to get tobacco over to individ-
Precisely the same answer must be made
to those requests which was made in the
war years: the smoke fund has no way
10 overcome the postal regulations; its
tobacco is sent over as 1t always has
been sent, in bulk and by the Govern
nent
And so far as the smokes are con-
cerned. the necessity for them. the joy Of
getting them, conditions remain pre-
cisely what they were during the anx-
lous days of war. Except that the SOL
diers now write the name of the town
where they are billeted and go freely
into matters that were then censored,
what they say ABOUT their need for to-
bacco and what they say about the
good it does them does not vary from
the story they told vaguely and reti-
Gently in the first cards sent back. Moth
Ing has been changed by the armistice
fud most likely nothing will be changed
by the peace.
For our soldiers cannot smoke French
or German tobaccos and they wear a
vry grin when they tackle the English
variety. What they crave is the home
kind. of tobacco, and when they get a
supply of It through THE Sun Tobacco
uud they draw a long breath and lie
beck to enjoy themselves.
As a matter of fact, then our soldiers
blleted in French towns and villages
near the Eastern frontier of France. in
the towns of the Duchy OF Luxembourg
IRnd in the German cities of the Rhine
zone need tobacco, want tobacco, beg for
tobacco and can get 1t in satisfactory
shape and quantity only through THE
Bun Tobacco Fund.
Facts shown to Donors.
Perhaps donors to the fund do not
quite grasp these facts 1t is certain
that some of them do not and it is
more certain that the majority OF
smokers who are potential fund donors
do not realize them. If they did the
fund would not lag near but not quite
UP to the s450,000 mark. This mark
should have been reached and passed
this week; more time Is required to get
by on account of the lack of understand
Ing of these plain conditions The fund
advises smokers who feel sympathy for
the Americans who are guarding the
Rhine to try TO send tobacco to a SOL
der. And after they have tried In all
ways TO do 1t and have failed, then they
Rad better send in a contribution to
THE Sun Tobacco Fund, which never
fails.
DO this right away. The fund wants
to make the coming week a real old
Fashioned banner week. 1t wants TO 20
over that impending top before next
Saturday The distance isn't great, one
good long stride and the fund is over
But only the donors can help it take
this necessary stride by sending in lib
erai contributions quickly
To repeat all the arguments for ac-
complishing this wished for thing would
only waste time, and besides everybody
knows them. or If there is anywhere
ignorance OF the subject the cards and
letters sent back in the latest soldiers
mail will clear it up.
The appeals from the boys in the base
hospitals in France ought to carry great
weight. They write that their need OF
tobacco is constant and beg that THE
Sun Tobacco Fund keep up its good
work OF sending it over.
Corporal B. d. Harley of Company c
Fifty eighth Engineers, was in Camp
Hospital II when he wrote: We are
always in need of tobacco over here
and we greatly appreciate the kindness
OF the donors to THE SUN Tobacco Fund
in sending ii to us. I want Lou Freed
man. one of these donors, to feel assured
that his gift of tobacco was distributed
in the proper way, and so far as | know
there isn't a patient here to-day. Feb.
ruary %. who isn't recipient of smoke.
from THE SUN"