The sun., 1919-05-05
FUND HELPS TROOPS
MAKE NEW FRIENDS.
Soldiers Find Smokes Great
Aid in Learning French
Language.
THANKFUL FOR TOBACCO
Many Messages Come to Don
Many Messages Come to Do
nors Expressing Gratitude

American soldiers abroad are learning
| the French language. and some Of their
| letters tell of the help they get in their
| task from the French people.
II have learned to say Bon jour-
| writes a soldier to THE SUN tobacco
, Fund, land in return have taught the
| nice old lady and her daughter where 1
am billeted to say in perfectly good
American Come Off and Stop your kid
| ding. They know precisely what these
phrases mean. and have no doubt they
| will appear as additions 20 the French
| language in the new standard diction-
l aries"
The same correspondent adds that the
French people who have learned OF the
| existence OF THE SUN Tobacco Fund as
! an institution carried on by private per-
sons and not by the Government. to pro-
vide the necessary comforts to Ameri-
con soldiers abroad, express admiration
\ for its work.
For a long time the people over here
| thought our Government was the most
| liberal in the world because It kept us
so literally supplied with tobacco. which
as everybody knows Is Government
| monopoly In France, and when they
heard that 1t was done by a great news
paper with the assistance of contribu-
lions from its friends, they were aston
| ished. This is only one OF the traits
| 'Americaine that Ali them with admira-
ton"
Respect for French People.
| Arthur d. Davis, private in Company
| A, 1880 Infantry, Thirty-sixth Division,
| sends a few details on this subject to X.
| L. Ireland. to whom he writes a note Of
| thanks for cigarettes delivered to him in
April last by THE SUN Tobacco Fund.
He says:
| Our experience here has been broad
| ening. We have seen that there were
| other people in the world besides Amerl-
cans, fine people and smart people, who
might teach us something about how to
| live and get the best out OF life For
my part. l came over here prepared to
md everything much less worth while
than tho same thing was at home. ]
know now that my views were narrow.
The people who looked after us when
we were billeted in the villages were not
only kind and considerate. but they knew
| a lot that was worth learning from them.
"Some OF these people you might call
| peasants, l suppose, had queer ideas
| about US. They knew We came from
| America and l guess they thought we
| were descended from the Indians, but
they soon changed this view and then
as they accepted the fact that We were
human beings like themselves, intelli-
gent and with some degree of education.
they took US to their hearts. I've made
some lasting friendships while l have
| been over here"
| Private Brandt OF Company A. 3Oeth
| Infantry, who has been back in this
country two months. told about the
| same thing OF his experience in France.
| He said, when he came TO see the
smoke fund the other day;
II found that the French men and
| boys in or out OF the army had strong
liking for American tobacco. so much
| so that can't see why the French Gov
| eminent keeps on putting out the kind
OF smoke It does. I always took pains
| to have a cigarette or two in my pockets,
the gift of THE SUN, when l went to a
new billet, and by Offering 1t to my host
! could count on his friendly acts from
that time on. The French are the most
grateful people in the world and I'm
sure they will always be our friends"
Many Messages of Thanks.
The Loan Star Boat Club. cry Ke-
! haya, Preston NJ Brook and N w.
Tyler are donors who will hear from
the Twelfth Service Company at Rimau-
court France. which received, about the
middle OF April donations OF tobacco
from them and distributed by the smoke
fund These messages OF thanks were
sent by Private W Chambers. SerGt.
Mitchell, William McGlade. Private J. j.
Kelly and other non-commissioned OFF,
GERS and men OF this company. In eff
feet these cards say that the receipt OF
the tobacco was a great surprise as well
as a great JOY.
Private Kelly writes: I'VE had sup
posed that THE Sun like so many other
friends of ours in war time. had shut
down because they think we don't need
anything. There couldn't be a greater
mistake We certainly do need tobacco
and II THE SUN doesn't keep up the
work we will certainly suffer. because
we don't know where we can get to-
bacco.'
A soldier who signs himself as of
Company X. 3osth Infantry. addresses
Miss r. NJ Burns, as follows: TRAY
bon friend. Your gift oiled up thu
boys working machinery and the boys
OF my platoon send you 'bokoo' thanks
TO the tray bon ladies in the United
States who have not forgotten the
boys"
Sergt. Harry Bochert OF the same
regiment writes to Thomas Cakes:
by the boys OF this outfit We thank
you very much and very heartily. We
enjoy the fine gift all the more because
We have reason to believe that it may
be the last one we shall receive from THE
Sun over here. We hope to start early In
May at the latest for home :"
The contributions received yesterday
and late the night before will he entered
in the list of new contributions to-
morrow The grand total of the fund is
repeated here as 1t stood in THE SUNDAY
SUN:
How the Fund Stands To-day.
THE Sun and THE EVENING Sun. 1000 o.
United cigar Stores boIes.,..,......... 70 n97 "
Otherwise acknowledged. ............... 3lS s7l II
New contributl ons. ............,......... los a
IotAl S3e6 90. 6l
Shipped and paid for. 1896, 49,. %
ttsh balance. ......,...,... M.
Schultz cigar stores boxes. ............ 70 96l Al
Grand total $3.50 O37 p