The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-13
GIVES $S47 MORE
FOR TOBACCO FUND
- v
Grccnsburg, Pa, Adds to Its
Donations to "Sun''
Smokes.
SOLDIERS THANK DONORS
Postal Cards Now Arrive A bout
Two Weeks After Being
Mailed in France.
SOLDIERS THANK DONORS

inr Company or Greensburg, Pa, do
mated by the patriotic people OF that
vicinity. Accompanying It is a note
from the treasurer. Ida NJ. Parks, who
end, by saying: please see that this
money buys the smokes for the SOL
di,rs abroad while they are waiting
orders home"
This donor has been one of the most
faithful during the history of the fund,
the first gift from this source having
been credited in July. 1918. Not n
month has gone by since without a lib
eral donation from Greensburg and in
the final accounting the total amount
sent In aid of the soldiers by these
patriotic people will be truly OF a hand
some size.
Mail Handled More Quickly.
Tho cards now arriving in the SOL
6iers' mail are scarcely two weeks off
from the current date. This shows a
vast improvement in the handling OF
this mail, for at a time not so very dis
tant and certainly after the signing of
the armistice so long a time elapsed be-
tween the writing of the cards and their
being received by, the donors that the
latter often felt hurt because of the
soldiers esponsiveness.
This matter has been touched on be-
fore by the fund as we'll as by the SOL
diers. who have felt a genuine response
bility in filling out their cards of &C
acknowledgement and have expressed AN
earnest wish that the cards should make
the trip expeditiously in order to reach
the donors while their gratitude was
still warm. Where this speed proved TO
be improbable the soldiers rarely failed
90 express an apology.
From Commercy. France. for instance.
w. f. Powers Of Company G, 10th
=. s Battalion, dates his card of thanks
10 Mrs. b. Siegel. January 20. This IL
lot quite three weeks from the prese Mt
date. He writes: I'VE have received the
tobacco and when It came we were en-
tirely out. In fact this gift of tobacco
from you is the first In the smoke line
We have had for a month.
ut is possible that THE Sun Tobacco
Fund is under the impression that be-
sides its gifts we get regular army ra-
tons OF tobacco. SO We are expected
TO do. but I repeat that until your kind
donation came We had not had a smoke
FOR n month. So We are in n position to
enjoy your gift and We wish to thank
YOU very kindly"
Writes From Hospital.
James Scheiner was In Evacuation
Hospital SO at Nantes about the same
date and he sends card of thanks to
Mrs. Robert Baittger, couched as fol-
loks:
when your gift OF tobacco through
THE Sun Tobacco Fund was received
Il was very much needed for We were
entirely out Of any kind of smokes
You can't imagine how much we ap-
preciate your kindness and that OF the
other donors to the smoke fund in asud
ing us some real butts"
II any one thinks the soldier boy is
rot learning French let him read this
unsigned card sent back to donor Annie
Moore and s. Kereske:
II received your tobac O. X. and can
not thank you enough. I am sitting in
cafe with beaucoup Mont Blanc In
front OF me and when I smoke a ciga-
rette and take a drink of vim blanc I
mink OF you two. We are going to
'parti tout suete pour la Amerike'"
Justice Francis NJ. Scott receives ap-
preciation Of his good hearf' and
thoughtfulness in sending over via THE
SrS cigarettes to the 103d Ambulance
Company.
First Sergeant G. L. Hynes Of Com
pany 7, 10th Infantry, writes 10 the
"a ne giver:
7 send many, many thanks for your
donation OF tobacco. Nothing could have
arrived which pleased us so much One
and all OF the company had smokes and
appreciated them. How could It be diff
rerent, for we have been terribly shy of
smokes since November
The patients IN Ward 313 OF Base
Hospital IS join In thanking a donor for
tie tobacco he has given them It was
distributed in that ward January II. .
Writes Some Real French.
Now here is a bit OF true French writ.
ing emanating from a soldier who Is
wounded and lying in Hospital 200 al
Orleans. His name is Sergeant Thomas
and he adds in parentheses ("from Mis-
souriD. His card is addressed to donor
Mrs Gregory:
Embarrassment de votre al agreeable
cadeaux, lesquels nous avons recevoir
Aeil!eur regards pour votre famille."
With the exception of the word
embarrassment" which the Missouri
soldier surely got out OF dictionary
ms little note must have been indited
by a Frenchman. y
From the same base hospital and or
No same date a card started to cross
The ocean to the members of the Aloha
club: Dear friends, bunch of wounded
boys wish TO thank you very much fol-
The present of tobacco which We have
lust received. We assure you we shall
always have pleasant memories of the
Aloha Club"
TO the New York Trafic Club comes
ne from Battery c, Field Artillery
stationed at the time Of writing at Pont
a-Mousson France:'
The incest part OF your p A. tobacco
was the fact that 1t arrived when We
needed 1t most II was given out las
night at dinner as a surprise. and as We
had nothing TO smoke at the time ] car
tell you that we instantly sat back ant
enjoyed nice quiet smoke. The bunch
or rather the battery, send thanks ant
wish you Happy New Year"
Makes Their Stay Easier,
Corporal A. Gerlach of Company II
ls5th Infantry. wrote from Evacuation
hospital "a January 10 to donor Mrs
Albert c. Bedford:
i am writing this 10 thank you 70
your gift. received through THE Sun
Tobacco Fund. The boys certainly fee
grateful for the help the people of tn
United States are giving US and II make
u easier for Us to stay here and ou
burden lighter while we are here. an
member OF the Rainbow Division an,
come from Ohio"
How the Fund Stands To-day.
THE SUN and THE EVENING SUN S,ooat
United Cigar Stores boxes............ 72,0s7.
utherwise acknowledged. ............. 3S.2T.
saw contributions. ................... SAL
Total sse0 Ts2 4