The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-18
WOMAN WORKER In
WAR PRAISES FUND
Tobacco Is Great Help and
Comfort to Soldiers,
She Says.
FOOD SHOW AIDS CAUSE
Returned Soldier Brings Mes
sages to Donors From the
Boys cover There

THE Sun Tobacco Fund has published
many extracts from letters and cards
sent by soldiers to contributors, thanking
them for their gifts OF tobacco. All the
good accomplished. however, cannot be
expressed In short messages
Mrs. Edward Thomas White OF Ridge
wood, y. j.. who has devoted much time
and energy to canteen and other work
at Camp Merritt for more than n year
called at the office OF THE Sun Tobacco
Fund expressly to bear witness to the
gratitude shown by the boys who are
coming home. She said:
II always read the smoke fund
column and have made note OF the
words Of gratitude that are written.
but I never knew how the boys felt
toward the fund until they began to
come home. They can't say too much.
and in some instances they tell stories
of Its help in restoring the nerve
wrecked and wounded men TO cheer
fulness when are astounding. The
published letters are fine but they do
not begin to measure how grateful
the boys feel. AS | am working with
the Knights of Columbus my testi-
mony concerning the impressive
stories about the work of the fund
have not been told with any Interior
end in view. l believe when your
fund really knows all 1t has accomp-
lished IL will begin to show a degree
of pride that so far has not been
exhibited. But THE SUN Tobacco
Fund deserves to feel proud
Offers Plan to Help.
In a,l 90 1ff ~
the Brooklyn Food Show to give the
smoke fund a percentage Of its gate
receipts and asked fer the address OF
those in charge that she might suggest
to them the advisabillty of giving one
uight of its exhibition to committee
Of women who would work for the fund
This food show and better homes exposi-
ton Is being held in the Thirteenth
Regiment Armory. Brooklyn. 1t opened
yesterday and will remain open &c
March 20.
A dinner was held last night for rep
resentative Wholesale grocers and pack
ers and members OF the press. The band
Of the Thirteenth Regiment. c. \. G.,
Lieut.. SHOEMAKER leader. played. To-
night at the exposition Mario 10 Tito
and his orchestra will furnish the music.
Sergeant stewar; l.. Evans of COM
pany +. 1OSd Engineers, visited the Office
of the fund yesterday to tell of distri-
buttons of Sun fund tobacco during the
Chateau Thierry fights and at the Fres-
rie front. He said:
TN the first battle particularly the
boys after three days of grilling were
badly off. There was no tobacco at
all in our company and every man
felt he had TO have a smoke II he kept
up TO the mark. But how to get to-
bacco. II was out OF the question
when all that could be done in the
way of bringing UP chow was done
under tremendous difficulty and dan
ger. Just the same THE Sun fund
got there. and or that third day we
had cigarettes and tobacco and were
reading the cards sent over b. the
people who contributed the money TO
buy the welcome stuff.
There was another distribution al
most as dramatic and surely as nee
essary on August II on the Neslc
River. That was where ] lost my
right arm, and from then on T was a
good part of the time IN hospitals.
The tobacco from the smoke fund
turned up there in the hospitals
pretty regularly. and not a man in
them will ever forget the JOY il gave
to get smokes as soon as we were
permitted to hit cigarette again.
Sergeant Evans's nome Is in Scranton.
Pa, but after he was sent home lie was
assigned to work on soldiers news
paper published il, Washington. II" has
recently been transferred to tho pape"
Home 4 gam. published at Fox Hills,
Staten Island, by and for the soldier
patients of Debarkatiun Hospital NO. :
and edited by Chaplain Hayden.