The sun., 1919-01-09
SMOKES *, ASSERT
RETURNED SOLDIERS.
Improved Mail Service Brings
Grateful Letters With
Much Less Delay.
CALL TO EXPRESS THANKS
Tobacco Needed Now More
Than Ever, Declare Those
Who Know Conditions.

Although the soldiers mail is now so
regular that cards written abroad reach
THE Sun Tobacco Fund in about ten
DAY. and may be counted on TO do SO.
srrtimes the soldier who writes with
cut any knowledge OF his future travels
over on the same steamship that brings
RS card. There have been two such in
stances where soldiers mailed cards IN
Toul and Ribaucourt, France, then
csugh. the same steamer at Bordeaux
and had the experience OF reading them
N New York the day after landing.
~ fancy it's the same feeling a man
,m when he reads his own obituary"
said one OF the uniformed men from
over the seas who had beaten his card
pcsted at Toul. I've come In to add
xha; force can TO what wrote in my
rard after the armistice. THE Sun
fund tobacco was a godsend to us, and
ne fund. along with one or two other
institutions that helped. isn't going to
re forgotten by us ever.
~ notice that you are hearing from
ne fellows In Germany. Getting tobacco
70 them Is one OF the finest things THE
Srs Tobacco Fund has done. The boys
ever there need 1t badly and those OF
10 who have come home will he glad
70 contribute to keep the good work
going I did contribute from Upton be-
FORE 7 got abroad because / knew the
fund would help me out after 7 was over
and II did half dozen times. That
hrst contribution was from what we
may call a selfish motive. but this one
70 from motive OF gratitude and the
vth that the boys who can't get home
should have all the comforts possible.
And tobacco Is the biggest Of them"
Sergeant Is Grateful.
Sergeant Stanley Steller writes en-
rcute to Germany: Dear SrN-I am
thanking you for your good smokes.
We received them Just as we were pass
!ng the frontier and this card Is mailed
from the last French town. We arpre-
oate YOUR great work in backing us up
and the boys all know that you have
tore your MT to win this war"
Yares r Brooks. hiking with the same
supply train, Ia less conventional in his
ap~-~~'at'on. Bully Boy. These old
sars turning IN tust as We had made un
our minds that on leaving France we left
all hope II them behind have cheered
~ nightly. For I don't mind telling
rou that some Of us would rather be
headed the other way unless we were
going this way to take Berlin. The good
Old Sun IL corker, and Il merits and
receives all TIE thanks OF the Tanks II,
Germany"
CORPORAL Ja-7c= T. Elliott of Company
?, Seventh Infantry. saws the toba eco Is
.ust the thing for hiking douehhoys"
ard that It put all those In good spirits
20 know that the friends in America
would look after them in Germany. the
same as they had donc while the BOYS
we're In France. These are times when
re would go without tobacco IL 1t were
no. to- TIE Sun"
Capt o. o. Koeppel. IN command ~
Headquarters Company. 1s5th infantry.
sends a card from Insul Germany. RE
ceived one carton (4o0 cigarettes) and
lave distributed the came in the mes.
''re, two cigarettes Se. man. Many
thanks from all"
Two cigarettes ner man, It's TOO had
FRAT such a limited distribution oc-
Cured just then, but that is the for
tune n the march and the Captain Z
words DO not indicate that the men
we're discontented Probably they were
TOO surprised and delighted TO be over
taken On the way 10 Germany nv a SUN