The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-09
FUND PLANS DRIVE
OVER $4,000 TOP
Call Sent to Friends to Rush
$4,000 Needed for
Achievement.
SMOKE PLEA CONTINUES
Heroes Abroad Tell How To-
baccO From Home Brings
Real Cheer.
SMOKE PLEA CONTINUES

The words ''over the top" lately SO
familiar had particular significance
with reference to the growth of THE
SUN Tobacco Fund: its subscribers and
friends followed with keen interest it's
progress from week to week and from
month TO month and jump in the
grand total of what had been received
in money to buy tobacco to send to
American soldiers fighting in Europe
was greeted with enthusiasm. Again.
said the people, "that wonderful fund
has gone over the top"
It was no unusual thing in the days
referred to and which are so near US
still for the fund to increase from $685.
900 to $4,000 in one month and its
weekly average was between $1,000 and
$4,000. There are weeks in It's history
when the anxiety OF the American peo-
pie rose to a great height and THE SUN
Tobacco Funds receipts rose proportion
ately. Indeed, the fund served as a sort
Of barometer of public feeling.
Nobody looks for similar great ad
vances now in any war relief. As the
soldiers themselves are feeling relaxation
from the excitement of battle SO the sup.
porters OF every fund have diminished
heir subscriptions to II. This was to
re expected and had been discounted by
tho great national movements, but in a
certain sense 1t is regrettable.
THE sun Tobacco Fund never did ap-
peal for help in a hysterical way. Its
request that the people should support
It was from the first based on reason.
Here was the syllogism: Tobacco Is a
necessity of the soldiers. the smoke fund
supplies this necessity, support the fund
A simple statement of facts as the SOL
l'ers saw them, plainly presented In the
;esttmony sent here by the soldiers in
heir cards acknowledging the good
he gifts Of THE Sun Tobacco Fund
id them, was what this fund relied on.
The figures show conclusively that the
reliance was justified.
Arguments Still Hold.
At this moment the fund is approach
ing another top" after ninety weeks Of
activity. the results of which are every
where praised and appreciated. In ask
ing for the money gifts which shall
carry the fund over this top" the same
arguments may be applied as were used
all along: they have not lost their
strength. The soldiers still abroad need
tobacco it's a necessity, THE SUN To-
bacco Fund supplies this necessity ;
therefore support the fund.
About $4,000 is what the smoke fund
needs to carry 1t to the top which Is now
in sight, $4,000. In asking for It the
fund does not feel called upon to ad-
vance any new reason why II should be
given this money. The old syllogism is
still in force. -
There are a good fnany people Who
think now that the war is over all the
boys have to do Is write home for the
sort of tobacco they want and II will
DO sent to them. Well. It isn't sent. and
" anybody tries to send some he will
still find obstacles in his path. These
sensible people say, too. that the boys
can buy their own tobacco. They are
in cities or in billets near cities and to
get tobacco now ia a very different task
from trying and failing to get 1t when
they were in the trenches.
1s II possible that smokers have for
gotten that American soldiers from the
minute they landed on foreign soil sent
a cry back to the effect that they could
not smoke foreign tobaccos or II they
did the smoke was unsatisfactory
Americans who have visited Paris or
Berlin before the war must remember
how they used to run about the city in
order TO find "tabac etrangere.' that Is,
American tobacco. and they had pretty
long run sometimes before they sue
oeeded in finding 1t in small quantities
tails now, II there is any, and the SOL
dlers who found themselves unable to
derive any benefit from French tobacco
now find that the German equivalent or
pretended equivalent of the weed is stin
worse
The necessity OF sending smokes over
10 half a million men will continue for
some time, an indefinite time, during
which, deprived OF the solace OF smokes,
p.tn z "a
IL disallowed or neglected. American
soldiers in the army OF occupation are
crying for our tobacco and THE SUN
Fund instead of hardening its heart and
refusing to do more than rejoice over
It's past, instead OF shutting UP shop,
keeps open for the benefit of soldier and
DONOR alike There are still plenty of
Gonors who welcome the aid of THE Sun
and there are Just half million OF
american soldiers who swear by 1t as
their best friend.
Dollar Needed, That's All.
The fun would like to impress on
possible donors that they need not sacrl-
fee much time or much money and still
be members of the wonderful fund fam
. i!y. To enclose q. dollar with ones
name in a letter 70 THE Sun Tobacco
Fund brings about this happy state OF
Thlngs. do II right away, $4,000 OF the
people who all want to benefit the SOL
Giers. and THE SUN Tobacco Fund will
90 lightly and easily over the new
"!op."
To help In carrying the fund over this
emlnence several public entertainments
are on the taps. The Brooklyn Food
Show is one: 1t will last for two weeks
and THE SUN Tobacco Fund is 10 get
share of the receipts according to the
generous offer OF the wholesale purvey-
ors and packers who are to conduct the
show. Then there are two parties, offer
'ngs to the fund. to occur this week.
nOraldina. a celebrated dancer who Gre
ties her effects, purposes to show new
Dance at Reisenweber's Paradise Room
fter a fair price has been obtained for
= by auction on Tuesday evening. She
Till begin her entertainment at o'clock
Arthur Guy Empey has expressed his
determination to be present at this affair
and help the fund and dancer along He
Is a host In himself when II comes to
doing something to swell the receipts
that are to go to buy soldiers the smokes
they crave. There will be other features
and while this affair Is in the nature Of
an improvisation from what the fund
has derived from those who are plan
ming IL the party will be a real SUN
Fund party.
Other propositions TO aid the fund in
the same agreeable way. one which pre-
Gents 10 the friends Of the 1kaoIdIers tina