The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-20
SONGS GIVE SMOKE
FUND NEW BOOST
Sophie Tucker Marbles Again
in Aid Of Tobacco for
Soldiers.
CARDS OF APPRECIATION
Thanks Are Expressed for Sol
ace That Relieves Strain Of
H0mesickness.

Singing songs for the benefit Of THE
SUN Tobacco Fund II becoming a grace
ful habit OF that true fund friend, Sophie
Tucker. II was only the other day that
notice was taken here of the sale of q
song by her for $50, and last night her
audience in the Sophie Tucker room at
Rsisenweber's encouraged her 10 repeat
the feat.
Forty-hve dollars was the result Of
this sale OF musical numbers, which was
made up as follows: IS for Another
Good Man Gone Wrong" s25 for You
Don't Want to Be a Cry Baby" $40 Tor
How Can You Keep the Down on the
Farm" SC The contributions from
Miss Tucker appear listed in to-day's
rev contributions
'Wstchful waiting on the banks OF
the muddy Moselle'' Is becoming tire
some, according to the report made to
the smoke fund by Sergeant Davey
Crockett Of Company A, 18th Field Sig
nal Battalion. But we had a fine sur
prise and clearing up the other day.
Ne and my mates, some twenty-five
healthy, restless honbres, we're sitting
round little log fire down at the bridge
head by the canal. Suddenly a couple OF
strangers drove up. and-hoh tight now
they drop bundle made up Of three
cartons of Tags Oh. boy! They were
40 welcome as chow on the front line.
All Took to Dreaming.
Smoking away, we all took to dream
ing like. We actually thought we could
zee Liberty statue! OF course. after u
while We woke up. but we felt better
after our dream. Nobody knows what
Uncle Sam means to do with us he has
given no signs of sending US back home
and perhaps he does not mean to right
away. Well, II the smoke fund keeps on
doing business as they have lately and
as they did prior to November IL we
viii try to bear up without DESERVING
But we do get homesick."
Letters are succeeding postal cards
in many instances as the soldiers find
more time to write. and in the relaxa-
ton OF the censorship they put in these
letters intimate details once vigorously
excluded.
II was not much OF a smoker until I
arrived in France a year ago last Sep
iember." writes Private Charles D. Nc
Lean OF Headquarters Company. 104th
infantry, but now THE SUN Tobacco
FUND has II on its conscience for hav-
ing made an inveterate one Of me- While
IN the trench or in action with machine
guns sure to get you II you don't watch
out. the smokes they sent us was as
good as food and quite as necessary.
Perhaps We do not need tobacco now
for the same reason. but Il still tastes
pretty good, and especially as IT comes
from home. / was a mounted orderly
until ST. Mihiel. and after that battle
vas an observer, hunting for the location
~ the enemy. machine gun nests and
trenches. enjoyed my smokes then
because 1t was dangerous to light up.
We were told to get ready for
hike last night and this morning while
sitting In the billet on my bed I was
sorrowfully thinking that not one OF us
had any cigarettes, when up comes our
sergeant with an armful OF smokes from
the good old SUN, which has never failed
us yet. l want to thank the paper and
the donor for the satisfaction these
smokes gave u.s.
Depending on Home Folk.
Private p. ]. Cannon, In Provisional
Hospital No. 8, wrote on January 81 10
SUM donor: How the boys enjoyed
your donation OF smokes! We were en-
tirely out OF them, likewise out of money
and. any way. We couldn't smoke DER