The sun., 1919-05-31
FUND NEEDS $4,000
TOREAGH $450,OOO
Squirt by Donors Will Send
Smokes Total to New
Record.
MORE SOLDIER LETTERS
One Writer Says Army Of Oc-
cupation Finds Germans
Unfriendly.

Interest in THE SUN Tobacco Fund
Is perennial and blossoms throughout the
year whatever the reason. There Is.
However. a marked renewal of interest
whenever the fund approaches what
II has been customary to call a top"
The fund friends have manifested on
these occasions what without too much
exaggeration may be called excitement,
and In the days when the fund took
q gigantic leap Of thousands Of dollars
this feeling was pleasurable and grati-
Tying. 1t was especially noticeable
among the fund family when the an
nouncement was made that II had
topped" s425.00o. and they were proud
70 call attention to the fact that a fund
made up of collections by a group Of
$50 newspapers and ninety-nine magah
zines did not by $4,000 reach the ef-
forts OF this single smoke fund.
The continuance of this healthy in
terest Is as strong to-day as ever and
the fund family will be quick to notice
the familiar signs that point to another
top" This time It is no less an emil
nence than s450.o00. with the addition
OF moneys that have been received from
donations and benefits but which have
not yet appeared under the head OF
Few contributions. although they are
SOON to appear there, a sum amounting
to but little moro than $4,000 will carry
the fund over.
Donors Get the Praise.
The fund likes to linger over the vari-
GUS steps that have conducted II to SO
h'gh n place In the scenery and It counts
on sympathy from all It's many friends
whenever II does do little natural
boaSing. After whatever may be said
OF its history and Accomplishment the
TACT remains that THE uN Tobacco
FUND always comes back toE placing the
praise where II belongs. that is, to its
donors. They have been II great, a fine
and praiseworthy lot OF people ever to
be relied on
And when Its members read how little
money 10 required to carry the fund over
INC impending top the fund family with,
out any doubt will get busy.
1t was said yesterday that Axuri.a.
the young racer bought by Alfredo II.
Diaz the Cuban turfman, when this
yearlins flly was sold by John e. Mad
den who raised her and gave her TO
The SUN Tobacco Fund, is to como
North to try for honors on our
courses She will be welcomed by
everybody who knows her history and
particularly by the smoke fund
In her second race Azurita defeated a
good field at Havana last winter equal
ling the track record for the quarter
mile. Her performances since havo
been encouraging and this racy looking
daughter of THE Sun Tobacco Fund
VIII be eagerly watched when she en-
tiers race nearer home The price she
brought at the sale at Durland's last
summer for the fund was $500.
So close Is the connection nowadays
between our fighting men and this coun-
try that letters and cards sent back to
donors and arriving here In the most
recent soldiers mall are dated as late
as May 10 in Germany. A card of
thanks sent To the United Four "a
fund donor) from Oberweis bears this
date. 1t was written by Guert Markle
OF Ambulance Company 353. 1t reads:
Il am addressing you as the soldiers
friends. for that Is the way you seem
to US. Your donation of smoking to-
bacco was opened by our outfit this
A. NJ. Thanks for the smokes that
served US better than you can know,
even II we tell you that we were all
craving the taste that we had almost
forgotten of good old American tobacco
We have only a few more days In this
land of cheese and pretze.r. then It's
on our way for home"
George W. Martin OF Battery A, eth
Field Artillery wrote thus: I'VE are
very grateful to the children of Public
School ~ from whom we have Just re-
ceived what makes US happy and as
content as we can be away from home
some real homo smokes sent hero by
you through THE SUN. 1 need not try
to tell you how pleased we are to have
II.
II am sure the tobacco fund Of that
great newspaper has done n great work
in the winning OF this war. II kept
us In trim when We might otherwise
have lost spirit and helped in hun
drcd fine ways We are never going to
forget what smokes did for us nor who
sent them. What l have said Is not
TOO much for their praise during the
fighting and smokes are just as handy
now that the war Is over"
Finds Germans Passive.