The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-13
TROOPS MADE HAPPY
BY DONORS LETTERS
Lonesome for Note and Crate
full for Reply to My Card"
One Writes.
GIFT WAS BIG SURPRISE
Tobacco Given to Soldiers as
They Started on Long
Hike for States.
GIFT WAS BIG SURPRISE

The people who have contributed to
THE SUN Tobacco Fund ara a kind
hearted lot, that goes without saying,
and when, as often happens. the soldiers
in the American Army Of Occupation
write from their billets in Germany
pleading for q letter some Of the donors
answer the cry and write. In q card
sent over by Private Charles Hutchin-
son of Company @. Twenty-sixth In
fantry, at Oberhausen, Germany. he
made a bid for a letter and won It: q
donor replied and the following In his
frank and ingenious reply, dated May
rs
IT was really lonesome for a letter
from the United states when sent
that card to TIE Sun Tobacco Fund and
although hardly hoped that Il would
bring a reply I am grateful for It and
thank you very much for answering
my little note
II hope to disembark from the trans
port In your city some time early in
July and yet we are not sure Just now
but that we will have to move further
into Germany. We are ready to march
in case the Germans reject the peace
terms.
II know very lite about New York
and II should happen to be turned
loose there I feel certain I should lose
my way II there were not some kind
friend to 60 about with me. It IL too
large a city for me to be In all alone.
! have been In CoDey Island but only
for twenty four hours and although q
stranger 1 certainly did enjoy its sights.
Yes, as you say, It would be nice
TO be back home among my friends;
there's no place like homo but think
we are all moro anxious now about
what Is happening at Paris than In
America. I am from Kentucky and my
family and dearest friends are there.
have many friends in other States
and, In fact, any whole hearted Amer
.ican Is my friend And being q soldier
think of every American as my friend
With best wishes and regards I am
your soldier friend"
"Americans MY Friends"
THE SUN Tobacco Fund is very GER
tain that the donor who listened to the
appeal for a letter from home will en-
Joy or has enjoyed the correspondence,
Everybody wants the soldiers to hold
firm to the belief expressed 60 candidly
above. Being q soldier think Of every
American as my friend"
Fund familyites are showing one
another in great glee an item drawn
from Commander e. W. Coils detailed
description Of the voyage OF tho navy
dirigible C-5 Of May IL. This item wal
to the effect that the greatest trial &c
the men aboard was that for twenty Ave
hours and dfty minutes they were moi
permitted to smoke. Immediately upon
landing" said Commander Coll. "every
man was putting away contentediy."
10. A.
OF 1t sent back by American soldier
during and after foreign service, Of tn,
need Of tobacco in times Of strain ant
excitement" said a donor, "and 1t ough
to be received as evidence by the people
who opposed the use Of tobacco during
the war"
En- route to ST. Nazaire on May II tn,
medical detachment and men OF Com
pany NJ, 357th infantry. wrote q cart
TO the United Four, saying:
Your tobacco sent over by THE SUI
Tobacco Fund was given to US thi
morning when we had started on ou
hike to the United States. We wer
on the train when 1t stopped at CIa
mercy. France, where the smokes wer
given to US. AS we knew what It woul,
mean to have full supply of the SMOKE
on ship board you may imagine tina
the tobacco gift made a real hit Man!
thanks"
On the same May day in German,
Homer A Mcleod got some tobacco from
fund donor, the American Wooden Com
pany. He was delighted and wrote a
once to say SO he Is of Company 1
Thirtieth Infantry.
Willie NJ. Gaskirl of Company E
Fifty-sixth Pioneer Infantry, had som
smokes given to him by donor, Lieu
Morris Kinney, while he was at Bithurt
in Germany, and he unloaded his thank
as follows:
81 am not surprised when I read tina
an army officer Is the one to than
for smoking tobacco, because an arm
officer knows what tobacco means to
soldier. Please take my best thank
and the gratitude of all in my compan,
for all Of us got share. I happene
to be the one who got your card sen
with the smokes by THE SUN. Trul
we are enjoying your bounty whic
could not have taken a more agreeabl
form than this one, and when we ar
back In the States hope to meet 20
and tell you just how you have helpe
out. At the same time / am going I
call on THE Sun and say about the sam
thing. Thanks"
Company sends Thanks.
A card of thanks from a soldier VII
did not give his name, but said he wrot
for Company H, s15th Pioneer Infantr.
comes to Miss Mary Walsh. 1t reads
This company is glad to express Il
gratitude TO you for your donation an
personally we shall all be happy whe
1t will no slonger be necessary to as
our kind friends to give till 1t hurts.
Seneca G. Lewis of Jeanette, Pa
will receive this card from Lieut.. Pa,
l.. Strickler Of the Thirty-eighth InfaI
try, who wroteNit on May 20 at Niede
mendig. Germany;
my dear sir Allow me to thank yo
for your generosity In regard to Il
smokes which We just now receive
from you. Here In the Hun countl
we appreciate things like this from God
country. Thanking you again i am sii
cerely yours"
Corporal Clinton Zidei OF Company ]
Twenty-sixth Infantry, writes to a don,
from Germany: This Is far from beir
the 1rst time we have had occasion
bless THE SUN Tobacco Fund and 1
generous donors. I, for my part, ha'
shared in half a dozen donations
smoking tobacco and cigarettes. It is
fine record, but some OF the other DO,
who have been on more fronts than
was during the real scrap have a bette
All told we have been treated III
princes by THE Sun and we are not a,
to forget that paper as long as we liv
1t cannot be long now before we kno
ono thing or another, II we are going
turn our faces TO France or march {
TO Berlin. 1t all depends On whether Il
Huns sign the treaty or not. We are 9
ready to march into German citi