The sun., 1919-06-02
BOYS TAKE PAINS TO
THANK SMOKE FUND
Returned = Fighters Make
Tracks for "Sun" Office as
Soon as They Land.
ALL EXPRESS GRATITUDE
More Letters Come From 0c-
cupied Districts Telling Of
Benefits Received.

1t was the good fortune Of THE SUN
Tobacco Fund to be able to secure for
the Welfare Relief of Headquarters Com
pany, 3osth Infantry, in the year 1917 a
ballroom where they could give their
Christmas party. and men Of this COM
pany since their return to this country
from active and distinguished service in
the war have been careful to come In
almost daily to remind the fund Of It.
At the same time they review the vari-
Gus occasions when they came in the
limelieht projected by THE SUN abroad
and for a share of the good tobaccos
that organization distributed.
The proceeds of that Christmas party
which now seems to them to have taken
place long. long ago, so mudh has hap
pened since, were equally divided be-
tween the welfare fund OF the regiment
and this fund. Now the boys feel that
In the distribution, liberal as THE Sun
thought II. IL it had been based on the
comfort the smoke fund gave them. then
1t should have had the larger share.
I'VE know what the smoke fund was
doing for the boys abroad that Is we
knew 1t as one knows OF things by
hearsay, without exactly comprehendinE
what tobacco meant when In a country
where it wasn't easy to get SO we were
glad to help the fund in every way. in
Guiding our little donations. But after
getting over to France and beginning to
starve for tobacco then we did appre-
ciate, and we said II we had 1t to do
over again all that we had done for the
fund would have been increased five or
| more fold. That Is the way all the boys
felt"
This is the way one of the company
who came to tell his feelings spoke the
other day. As a matter of fact. the
Headquarters Company. 306th, was n
true friend OF THE. SUN all the time
they were In. Camp Upton and from Col.
Vidmer to the latest enlisted private the
men were eager to help out at any SUN
fund entertainment
Quartet Makes HIT.
At one of the first Of The cabaret az
fairs given for the benefit OF the SOL
diers' smokes Capt. Radcliffe introduced
the double quartet of Headquarters Com
pany, and they made their first New
York appearance under the agis of the
| fund. IL was a tremendously successful
appearance, and ever after so long as
the S06th was. in camp in this country
no entertainment Of the fund seemed
complete without them.
Besides the singing members the S06th
| had fine brass band. which played
several times for the fund and the last
time at the Ansonia Hotel party in 1917
| under the direction OF Sergeant David
Hochstein. who was killed two days be-
| fore the armistice In the Argonne. There
| was not, so far. as has been told. a
more musical regiment than the 306th.
It Is the idea of a number of these
| men who are now discharged to give a
concert or entertainment OF some kind
| in which music shall be the principal
feature for the benefit of the welfare
fund in the rear future. Plans are neb-
ulous as yet, but TIE SUN Tobacco Fund
will heartily second any plan of the kind
for the aid OF its friends
An Alabama soldier friend. Private NJ.
Boyett OF Company |, Fiftg-first In
fantry, sends a card over from Colmiers
lie Haul France, reading:
"I am glad to take this means OF
thanking you for your contribution to
THE SUN Tobacco Fund, which has made
possible these smokes for the boys of
the A. n F. Tobacco always nnds q
hearty welcome by us.
THE Sixth Division will probably be
| in Germany by the time this card
| reaches you: we are not sorry 10 go. but