The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-06
SOLDIER STUDENTS
AWAIT SMOKE GIFTS
Distribution of Tobacco to
Take Place as Beaune
Closes Term.
READY FOR HOME VOYAGE
Another Bundle Of Letters
From Overseas Brings
Thanks TO Fund.
READY FOR HOME VOYAGE

France. will close tomorrow its first
term Of school and the same day there
~ TO be a distribution OF smoke fund
tobacco to all the administrative forces
and the battalions This, at least, Is the
purpose of an officer OF the personnel
who has sent letter to this country
telling about 1t. In part his letter runs
thus:
I'VE believe that we are all to be
sent home with the university faculty,
and this being so we are treasurine
some SUN fund tobacco to glorify the
occasion Of departure. The boys have
all set their hearts on this going home
proposition and 1t will De a shame for
things to slip up now. Most of them
have been over here eighteen months
This section of France Is very beau
titul at this season. The apple trees
are in bloom. over all fences and
hedges lilacs are hanging and a walk
in the fields and the woods is like open
ing one big perfume bottle You start
from the camp here and 20 out into
the country or among the little villages
and you walk through a beautiful gar
den. The little gardens the people have
here arc wonderful. On the valley bot
toms, along the hillsides and on up
the high places run the grape vines
The cherry trees are beginning to put
out little cherries. although It seems hut
few days ago when they were fsst in
bloom
I'VE are taking our shot in the arm
again. that is. we are being inoculated
for typhoid. &c. before We depart for
the States. There will be some sore
arms and tired fellows for a few davis.
but IL 1t brings our start back any
sooner why most OF us would take a
dozen shots and still preserve a glorious
feeling.
Il hope I am not repeating old stun
when send you the thanks of the
Service Battalion to THE SUN Tobacco
rund TOT what II has done for US. but
this battalion, being a little army by
itself. made so by an act of Congress-.
and not being attached to any division
at all, is very apt TO get lost II some
one does not write and tell the other
fellow it is still here
'Sweet Smoke" They Say.
May Is to 20 is the period covered
by the dates on the postcards and letters
received from soldiers still in foreign
service. On the former date Private j.
f. Fisher and w. ]. Hess. who were at
Andernach on the Rhine. wrote a fund
donor Mrs. Baittger. saying:
I'VE do hereby acknowledge the pack
age OF Bull Durham that you sent Tho
boys are now rolling their own and en-
1oying every time they inhale the sweet
smoke. Please accept our thanks and we
nope 10 see you some time in New York
city. provided the Third Marine Division
ever gets back. Let's hope 1t will be
soon now"
The young soldiers tell where they are
from in postscript; Fishers home is In
Cleveland. Ohio. and Hess lives In
Brooklyn. ..
To J. p. Acknowledgement Charles
O'Malley of Company b, Thirtieth
United States Infantry, wrote at Nav
ERFna.lV
this fourth platoon I am writing to
thank you for the tobacco we had from
you. given out in the regular issue. Your
card was in the carton and thus we
found that YOU were q contributor to
THE sun Tobacco Fund and had looked
out for US boys. We thank you for the
same"
S. z. Barnum OF Headquarters Com
pany. Thirty-eighth Infantry, Third d.
vision, addressed this card to fund donor
F. B. futile:
Thanks for cigarettes, which were
sure welcome in this cauerkraut land
Now your duty is to use your influence
to get us home quick Ha. ha! We're
a disguised bunch. Thanks again for
the tobacco.
THE smoking tobacco was received
in first class condition and was given to
the boys OF Supply Company 356. Eighty
ninth Division, near Ehrang. Germany.
This is what we have to say in order
TO comply with the laws OF politeness,
but when II is a matter of the heart we
have to say a great deal more. For we
are happy bunch when THE Sun finds
US and gives us absolutely without
cnayge sufficient tobacco to last us for
many days. 1t is something wonderful
for us to get anything for nothing. hut
that is the way THE SUN has always
created US, beginning at the start and
Eae%1inU uyaU hA CT na
was drawn up and signed"
The writer Of the above was Adam d.
Housover OF American Regulars Sta
ton A. P. o., Trier. Germany He hea 1ed
his card with the words: Tobacco and
THE SUN.
From Mundersbach. Germany, a letter
dated May 10 was mailed to donor Miss
Lora Blood by Private Lester Keller OF
Company H. Sixteenth Infantry. First
Division. He says:
by accident I happened to ind your
card showing that you had donated some
tobacco through THE SUN Tobacco Fund
for the boys overseas l want to thank
you for that tobacco. I sure did appre-
ciate it, as IL came along when my stock
Of smoking and that of the other boys
was very low Now IL you have any
spare moments l would greatly appre-
clate hearing from you"
Sergeant Emmett Walter Lally OF
battery a, $3.50 Fie I'd Artillery, was al
Long Kamp. Germany when he wrote
his Impressions of various things back
TO a donor. Says he: Tobacco Is one
good thing that a solder never gets
enough OF, and the donors OF THE SUN
Tobacco Fund are not making any mik
take when they keep on being good to us
In this fashion. l for one am happier to
get smokes from the States than any
thing except a letter from the home
folks. They write me that as late as
AprIl they were unable TO send me
small box OF cigarettes. about a hundred.
and when they asked IL the regulations
ana restrictions had not been tans- OF
since the arnLstice they got no satisfac-
ton from the +. o. Therefore 1t is very
NEE to be in one Of The SUMS distribu-
tons
we are all right here, but learning
OF so many OF the boys going home has
made US all a little homesick: we want
10 come home, too. However. II you BUN
people will engage to keep us In smokes
We will stay more willingly. Thank
you for what you have done"
On May IL Sergeant II. e. Davis or
Company B. Thrtieth Infantry, wrote
from Mayen, Germany I'm the latest
Issue Of smokes this card was handed
me stating who had given the tobacco.
which VIC enjoyed very much. We are
glad that people still think Of us. We
are over here for purpose In which