The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-30
DOUGHBOYS CALL TO
THANK SMOKE FUND
Returning Fighters Lose No
Time in Expressing Their
Gratitude.
REBATE PATHETIC SCENES
Morally Wounded Soldiers
Ask for Tobacco to Re-
I" lieve Suffering.

The time will come after there really
IL peace" said a soldier visitor to THE
Bur- Tobacco Fund yesterday. when all
the anecdotes in which the American
cigarette figures on the battle field will
be gathered. and they will make in the
jcomp1ete chronicle an interesting and re-
marksble feature Of the sidelights of
4 war. D. In my own case saw some dra-
matte Incidents In which one of these
smokes played a leading role.
These incidents had to do with pa
thettc deaths. but which were grand in
kind of every day heroism. Twice
saw men decline to be lifted into ambu-
lancer because they realized there was
no hope for themselves and that other
men whose lives might be saved needed
the, Soom. l heard these men say to
the surgeons: Leave me here just stick
a Gig In my mouth and I'll be all right
And they died as they expected to. in
terfering with nobody, and with the end
eased somewhat by the comforting
smoke.
And to think there are some persons
VINO sto not quite appreciate the neces-
sary work performed by THE SUN To-
baceo Fund in the war! You can rest
assured that no soldier. whether he
SMOKES or not, is among these unappre-
ciatiye persons"
IT has never been difficult for the
smoke fund to be sure of its work or its
welcome. The plan OF sending post
cards addressed with donors names
cleaseA this up from the start, and THE
Sur. Tobacco Fund Is happy to say that
the s6ldiers eagerly awaited themselves
of This method OF manifesting what they
felt for the fund and the people who
contributed to it. They have done 30
by lie million.
Some Sincere Thanks.
This general response makes it seem
all sthe more wonderful that soldiers
slikey 70 come to see the fund for no
other reason than to add the spoken
WORD TO their written thanks. Usually
the, boys who call say something like
this! I'VE wrote on the card that came
withc the tobacco as you told US to. but
that was so little to do. and we feel
that, We want to truly thank you and
through you the men and women who
gave 80 the fund"
Not few OF the callers come with
motive still more generous. It Is. to
nsaReea dons ton to the fund, which Is
still doing the work and sending over
tobseso to the boys in Germany.
Besides the soldiers in the Army OF Oc-
cupstfon who get comfort and occasional
forgetfulness of Inconsistencies from the
1t. and the fund is glad to say they
get ",
s card just received from Ward Mas
ter BOD. Myers Of Ward IL. Base Hos
pitai o., at Rimaucourt. France. says:
II am thanking you in the name Of all
inmates of this ward. who were de-
lIghtad to get tho cigarettes sent by THE
SuNr1sobacco Fund and delivered to them
earlY in April. The boys feel their thanks
ra liftla IN send hack hlt whQ 4
can,fhey do besides? But surely II you
could see their happy faces over the
snIokes you would feel repaid for the
monex and time expended"
Herman Henze writes from Sable,
Sarthe, France, April II. and heads. his
caids of thanks ito whom II may con-
Germ He says: 1.-THE tobacco delivered
10 us yesterday came at time when re
needed 1t badly. more than We had at
nnyEperiod Of the war. 1t seems to me.
Without you people in the States we
douxbboys would feel lost. as we could
be In no poorer place to get tobacco
France never had more than enough to
surrl$ her own soldiers. and since the ar
mistise this small amount has apparently
dwihdled away. As long as we are here
hope the good old SUN will keep on
for :Se need the tobacco badly
Railroad Men Get Smokes.
Dear Mr.. Motley" writes Corporal J
/ H. jackson of Company 90. Fifteenth
Division "a. p. o. 713). the tobacco
sent over by THE Sun was issued to us
today. 1t was enjoyed as usual by us
Many thanks for same. A soldier al.
waysi appreciates his smokes. Wish
was Sack in the good old T. 8. to thanh
YOU u person. Our division is a bunch
OF railroaders and representatives from
every railroad in the United States ar,
in Us So you may feel that your g,f
OF tobacco was disseminated country
wide.
THE tobacco this card came witt
was, SERVED by THE SUN to the enlisted
soldiers of Company C (colored), b82t
Engineers. As 1t came when We die
not have smoke to our names and NJ
way TO get one we sent up a whoop To-
THE Sun. That is the paper for us I,
read after this. Thanks"
This is signed by Supply Sergeant E
L. Miller (white) at Gievres, France.
Bert Walton. one of the top liners
in the donor class gets card from
n Private George Theodore Barclay of tn
Mobile Laundry Company AGO whicI
ready: 81 am sending this through m,
brother, who will mail It to you there
i wish l were going to be where he 1
TO mail it myself We are at Rimau
couft" Haute Marine. France. And thi
iS Just rev lines to thank you heart
lily, ,foE a carton Of cigarettes / receives
and Merry glad 1 was to get them" TIL
writer's messenger put the card in tn
mall In Philadelphia.
From Anvers, France. April 10, Ser
geant +. J. Prach sent this message I
60 -, - : -aes nf !sha rgar CO :.
take great pleasure in thanking 70
very much for the tobacco 1 receive
FROM THE SUN Tobacco Fund to whic
yoai'so kindly made a donation for tn
boys bcross the sea-"
III, Billingsley and A. ID. Afford joi
In Rfcard to give the thanks of Ambu