The sun., 1919-02-23
HEROIC THOUSANDS
CALL FOR TOBACCO
small Donors Are Real Life of
Fund Contribution
List Shows.
NEED SMOKES ON RHINE
Hotel Pennsylvania Party
Will Set Record for
Fetes Here.

Every day is homecoming day for our
soldiers and as the numbers of the re-
turned increase so rapidly 1t is quite
excusable for a careless reader TO get
the impression that all our men will soon
bs back. II attention Is paid to what Is
given out at Washington 1t will be
learned that 100000 American soldiers
are TO be left abroad to guard the border
line Of civilization. that is the Rhine
zone, and that they will be there for an
indefinite period.
Are the 100000 men to be left abroad
without American tobacco? The task of
supplying them seems not so great when
L Is contrasted with the work of the Ia ST
two years. when 100000 men needed
tobacco and got 1t through THE Sun
Tobacco Fund. All. but then the con-
tributors to the fund were Jealous lot
Of people spurred to big and generous
action by an urgent need. 1t was not
necessary to whip UP their interest, be-
cause II grew of itself.
THE SUN Tobacco Fund Is not of a
complaining disposition. and in truth II
has nothing to complain of, II has held
firmly to its work of furnishing tobacco
solace to American soldiers in Franco
and Germany since the armistice as be-
fore it. and in this pleasant labor 1t has
been ably supported by its faithful
Family. The regular contributors have
continued to send in subscriptions, their
interest has not needed squirting. but the
fund notes a falling off OF new coatrlbu-
tors, which gives IL a feeling of surprise
Keep Up Work, Say Letters.
For numberless have been the letters
written to the fund to keep up the work
so long as an American soldier remained
on duty in Europe. and the expression of
opinion in these letters has become well
high a formula. It is, now that the heat
and excitement of battling days are over
the men who are left to guard the inter-
ests which they went over to defend are,
in the easy conditions of armistice or
peace, more in need Of the help OF smokes
Everybody seems to say this and every
body probably believes 1t, but not every
smoker in the United States cares as he
once did, TO put his hand in his pocket,
draw forth dollar and devote II to the
purchase of tobacco for a fellow smoker
who is in a place where he can't buy It.
II small number of them gave vitality
to their belief in the comforting and re-
cuperating powers of the weed by send
ing in donations, the purpose of the fund
NSA'h " N"iA ieu ~ o. WIN tooC anu
grace.
The trouble with these smokers of our
country 10 that they do not think along
the correct lines. why bother. they say,
TO send in my small gift when other
people more aee are sending in big
gifts? The real support of THE Sun
Tobacco Fund throughout it's satisfactory
history have been the small donors. Let
them start their subscriptions afresh.
A proof of the sustained interest in
the fund and of the necessity of con-
tinuing to supply the soldiers with
tobacco has been strikingly given by
The Hotel Pennsylvania, which has
offered to the fund n party by which
big sum>of money will accrue. This
party is set for Friday night in the noble
grill room of this giant hotel. From
ihe outlook It viii prove to be a memoir
able affair in the life of the smoke fund.
Z. NJ. Statler, president of the operat-
lng company and a famousJ hotel man.
and Roy Carruthers, manager of the
Pennsylvania, are taking a personal in
terest in the details which will add up
20 the success they desire. II is. more
over, the first great public affair TO be
held in New York's most recent acquisi-
ton in hotels and they are naturally
keen to have the party live up to its
environment.