The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-01

With THE Suns Tobacco Fund
subscription lists closed, we cannot re-
frain from speaking Of those who have
made this pleasant work for our SOL
diers so much Of success-and among
the wars non-military activities 1t was
conspicuous success. In the course Of
Its two years Of supplying smokes to
our soldiers abroad 1t received and ad-
ministered some $4,000. With these
moneys some 200. 100000 smokes were
sent to our men across the seas They
were shipped steadily. distributed
widely and put impartially into the
hands Of our soldiers there, with moth
ing deducted for expenses from the
fund receipts. All the administration
expenditures, from managers to Office
boys, from cable dispatches to postage
stamps, were paid by The SUN and
THE EVENING Sun. So that every
penny which came into the fund went
into the hands Of our overseas SOL
diers as tobacco net, making this, in
truth, a one hundred per cent. war
help and comfort
But what we delight to speak of
is those who made 1t possible to carry
out this work, those to whom the
whole credit Is due--the readers and
the friends Of TIE Sun and of the
soldiers. 1t was their spontaneous
response to what was a crying need
of our soldiers from the day they
landed on the shores of France; 1t
was their joyous participation; It was
their unflagging interest which put
this Tobacco Fund over in so big and
so broad a way for our soldiers
abroad, as those soldiers put the war
over for us at home.
No labor Of management on our
part, no perfection Of organization in
all the details from the tobacco facto-
ries in the United States to the bat
tie lines in France and Flanders. no
application to the mere machinery Of
the fund could have been Of avail If
/ it had not been for the thousands and
tens of thousands Of dollars which
flowed like the running of q stream
into the treasury of THE SUN To-
bacco Fund to maintain in turn a
constant flow Of supplies across the
waters and to the very battle lines.
And the war over, with censorship
relaxed and confidential reports re-
leased, we hope we may be permitted
to say that even then the hearty, gen
erous, eager giving of our readers to
the extent Of those hundreds Of thou
sands of dollars could not have put
1.-THE smokes home to the soldiers IL it
had not been for the sympathetic In
terest and enormous cooperation Of
two professional soldiers high In the
United States Army.
1t was due to Major General GEoRoE
w. COCKTAILS. Director Of the Bureau
of Embarkation, that when shipping
difficulties were at their stiffest, when
cargo space was prize almost unat-
talnable, The SUN Tobacco Funds
shipments moved uninterruptedly
across the Atlantic Ocean, tons upon
tons, month after month and week
after week.
1t was due to Major. General II. L.
ROGERS, Quartermaster- General of the
United States Army in the field, that
as THE Sun tobacco shipments ar.
rived in France they were handled
through all the pressure of other sup
plies, through all the turmoil of war,
with precision and despatch from the
docks at the receiving harbors to the
divisions, brigades, regiments and bat
talions waiting for their American
smokes in the field.
Here was teamwork from contrlbu.
tors at home to distributors at the