The sun., 1919-03-19
SUN SMOKES HELP
ON VOYAGE HOME
Returning Troops Get Them
at Brest or Just Before
They Sail.
NEEDED MORE THAN EVER
Soldier in COblenZ Writes Men
Have No Money and No
Tobacco.

TEeSe are lnd udyb VI IeN views VI wv
army units in Erance and in the Rhine
zone and cards are arriving from our
American soldien' telling Of long hikes
20 the reviewing plain where they are
looked over by General Pershing.
hike for this objoct cannot be too long
or too arduous II only some tobacco Is
issued to the men either before they
start on IT or as uoon as they get to
the end One soldier writes for all his
company comrades:
1--WE were pretty discouraged when
setting ont the other day. even though
We knew we were to be looked over by
General Pershing, and the reason was
that we had no tobacco and saw no
prospect of getting any. But. oh boy!
soon as the hike Was over along came
some Gigs and packages Of smokes sent
through THE SUN fund and all the
blue faded out Of the landscape.
IF we had known h was coming We
could have hiked twice as far as We
did. A smoke after a hike Is necessary
but I guess TIM SUN and rs friends
know that"
Get Smokes on Way Home.
1t ia by remarkable good luck that
these hikes in n far couptry wind up
rs often ss they do. happily. In the en-
Joyment of tobacco sent through the
fund. Equal good luck seems to at
tend tho soldiers who are on route for
home: they often got the fund tobacco
5ust as they are entrainang for Brest
or else II is served to them a little while
before they 60 on board transport to
sail back TO America.
Here Is u card which wae mailed in
France March 8. scarcely eight days
rso. which tells OF a Sun tobacco fund
distribution Mt exactly the right time.
The. donors who are to receive II are
the men of the Irving Club. 1t reads:
Many thanks for the tobacco gift.
We received it while en- route to Brest.
Just when we needed II most. 1t was
distributed on the troop train of the
Twenty Division.
Yours in gratitude.
~. v. GRAY. 10Th Infantry
Soldier Gray is probably already hero
and he will read In his Sum this morn
3nS the words OF gratitude which he
mailed in France to Sun fund donor.
The boys OF Company B, repair unit.
807th Mechanic Truck Corps "a. P. o.
ia. France). send back to a fund donor
many thanks from Langres, Haute
Marne and add:
Good luck to you, hoping We may
be fortunate enough to get home in time
TO witness the opening game at the Polo
Grounds"
And from the same place under date
of February % Supply Sergeant Robert "
Tobin OF Army Reserves Material Unit B,
writes: I'm issuing your gift of tobacco
oil aalya % e.
TO thank you. so do so for the men Of
this organization. We hope that you
will be repaid thousand fold"
A card addressed to tho employees Of
Frank Thompson reads
Just a line to let you know that We
received the tobacco through THE SUN
Tobacco Fund and through our post. for
which we thank you and also all the
other people in the States who have done
90 much for our comfort" This is
signed by the following: August De-
tachment Chauffeurs, Machine Truck
Casual Detachment and Machine Truck
Overhaul Park. Their address is A. p.
O., IA.
No Money and No Tobacco.
Our Company" writes Private Will
lam Speir, lis made UP of boys from all
over the good old u. S. A, where we
sure would like to be in the very near
future, but lacking the chance to get
back a pretty good thing is to get the
smokes sent over to US by THE SUN
Tobacco Fund"
Sergeant James c. McGraw writes to
the men of the shop OF E W. Bliss
Co:
I'm the distribution of THE Sun fund
tobacco sent over to us boys l came
across your card, and on behalf Of the
Of A u NIata taI vnst o
wish to thank you for your gift. II our
boys good wishes for you come true you
will always be happy men,
This card to Mr. and Mrs. II. Con-
molly, fund donors. goes even little
deeper into the tobacco situation in Ger
many. 1t was written February 20 by
Wagner A X. Lamy Of the End Ma
chine Ammunition Train.
~ received n box of cigarettes from
you during the last Argonne drive of the
war but that Is long time ago and
ought to be ashamed not to have writ
ten to thank you before now. / was
very thankful to you as smoke a
great deal and the cigarettes helped me
out; they are finished long ago and I
would give great deal II l could re-
ceive some more. My folks have tried
10 send me tobacco blu. 1t is still not ac-
cepted by the postoffice In the States, so
they have failed.
II am an ammunition truck~Sriver
and am IN Germany Rav near Coolenz
on the Rhine. You would think could
get something to smoke here but you
would be wrong. No human being can
smoke the stuff they sell for tobacco
here 1t makes the boys deathly sick. I
hope you may send some more smokes
ove- by the SUN, which never falls TO
rome across and with a wish to be eX-
cused for being so bold and with many
thanks. l remain your smokeless
friend"
How the Fund stands To-day.
THE SUN and THE EVENING SUN 5000 10
United Cigar Stores boxes............ ~ oe7 81
Otherwise acknowledged ......."..... 317. O6S. At
New contributions ..................... l05. 90
Total 1894 ess. 81
shipped and paid for. 1922, 562.N
cash balance ............. 1890
Schultz Cigar Stores boxes a. s97 a.