The sun., 1919-01-19
FUND TOBACCO WON
HEARTS OF TROOPS
Yankee Legions Over There
Look for Donors to Keep
Up Good Work.
MORE CARDS OF THANKS
Sophie fuckers Party, to BE
Held Tuesday, Will BE
Record Event.

Words of appreciation of the work OF
THE SIN Tobacco Fund carried out
successfully 10 increase the comforts or
American soldiers abroad have never
been lacking on either side OF the ocean
Perhaps IL was natural to expect TO near
from the men who profted by the smokes
that were sent over hut no one could
have estimated beforehand that the re-
Spouse would be so full and free. The
soldiers better than anybody, knew the
full value of what the smoke fund did
and comprehended the difficulties under
which 1t labored. They have been
prompt and hearty in their praise.
with so many societies and individ-
uals laboring along different lines, but
with one end in view--how TO increase
the wellbeing of our fighting men-it
wasn't to be so confidently expected that
THE SrN Tobacco Fund would get ful
recognition on this side of the water.
That II has received praise from practi-
cally everybody who knew its work and
has satisfied the myriad Of persons who
sent along their money To keep II going
ts matter for true congra tulation. The
wisdom of the decision of THE SuN To-
bacco Fund never to depart from Its
course as laid down after deliberate
thought has been justified by results.
There hav" been critics who could not
understand why the smoke fund should
not undertake to fit out the transports
filed with outgoing soldiers with to-
bacco and since the war these or a few
OF them have suggested that the tobacco
should be given to the men as they re-
turn. little reflection on the facts of
the situation was all that was needed TO
convince these persons that their first
generous impulse was not a good one
and that the smoke fund followed wise
direction when IL consistently kept TO its
first plans.
The soldiers still over there have
never criticised the workings Of THE
Sun Tobacco Fund. but have. on the con-
trary, admired these workings and Won
dered because Of the invariable success
the fund had in getting their tobacco
solace to them. This was well expressed
by soldier recently when he said In his
card since the armistice we have
been off the main road and had made up
our minds to be left out of THE SUNS
distributions. but THE Sun found us. It
has always been ike that in remote
villages and out of the way bllets and
even on the march THE Sun Tobacco
Fund has always found US"
Put Trust in "sun" Fund.
At the same time these men who
are guarding the fruits OF victory In
what not long ago WAS Il
enemy country feel confident that their
tobacco solace isn't going to be denied
them, and they have jus'ifiable trust in
THE SUN Tobacco Fund and its donors.
But has the interest of donors quite
kept pace with this confidence? 1t
Was natural in the first rapture over
victory to think that already the work
Of the donors was done. The men would
he coming home, and. anyway, in their
frAe Rybs fhnNE ha
expected to take care of their own
wants. This sort of reasoning may
have been common, but 1t Is not good
A glance at the facts shows the soldiers
need smokes as they never needed them
before. They can get no satisfaction
out OF any tobacco but the kind they
are accustomed to, the home grown. II
American tobacco happens to be pro-
durable in any foreign city It is costly.
one soldier sent back the price he was
asked 10 pay for a package OF cigarettes
which sell for 10 cents here. He was
charged 80 cents.
And the men haven't money. For
reasons that need not be gone into
here they haven't been paid for several
months and they can't buy II they
would IL the stun were purchasable.
which Il seldom is. Particularly does II
seem that the wounded men in the base
hospitals in France are In bad case for
tobacco. When these get some from
THE Sun Tobacco Fund their JOY is al
most pathetic.
The men and women who have made
the smoke fund what il is. who have
deservedly felt pride in its great d.
nensions' will have to he touched up
q little. They know, for IL may be
assumed that they follow 1t day by day
that the fund needs money. they must
realize that the work can never be
completed unless they help with more
money. and they ought to feel, for the
eoldiers are quite open and candid with
the statement of their wants. that our
soldiers. who will have to stay in Eu-
rope until everything is settled al the
peace table, must be supplied with to-
bacco.
In order to fully understand and want
to flll this need It is only necessary to
read the cards OF the soldiers who were
transferred from the Twenty seventh
20 the Twcnty-eghth Division, and
thereby retained at their post for an
Indefinite time. These cards are arriv-
ing on every steamer from the villages
OF Luxembourg and the Rhine zone, and
each one OF them says the same thing,
that now with so much time on their
hands to think and the impossibiity
of getting smokable stun near their
billets they are banking on THE Sun
Tobacco Fund.
Good Work to Go On.
Several cards to this tenor have
reached the smoke fund lately from the
men of the 18TH Infantry. They are
lively expressions of gratitude to the
fund donors and they rarely fail to
add the hope that 1.-The good work will
go on"
A young Lieutenant OF Company r of
the 1l2th wrote to the fund itself IN
these words: Il do not smoke, but
being on the ground l am able TO APP
prcciate what you are doing II you
could see the Joy OF the men at an issue
OF tobacco and how 1t changes their
somewhat gloomy thoughts caused by the
uncertainty of their exile you would
not think It possible to give up the
task, an arduous one, we all realize, to
get tobacco over 10 them. They are
different men az soon as they light up
] think some disappointment was felt
ny many at the time of the armiGtice
This was caused by the feeling OF doubt
that there would be no more tobacco
But since II has continued to come they
are happy.
While | was still In the Thirty-sev-
eIth ! did patrol duty one night with a
Britisher, and he was some disappointed
when he asked me for an American
cigarette or smoking tobacco and ! had
g. tell him that as I wasn't a smoker I
couldn't help him out. ] guess he wished
then that he was patrolling with an
feher sort. But ] want to tell you
what he said about you. That news
paper fund has cheered you fellows and
Us too, whole lot and we Tommies