The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-20
EX-SOLDERS SEND
THANKS FOR SMOKES
Joy Over Receiving Tobacco
Abroad Told After Leav-
I'll ing Service.
CLUB JOINS IN PRAISE
Heroes Who Visit "Ohateau
.Thierry" Organization Pay
Tribute to Smokes.
CLUB JOINS IN PRAISE

A constantly renewed incident in the
daily life OF The Sun Tobacco Fund
might well be used to prove that Bone
ats are not always 90 promptly forgot
~ the cynic would have W believe. Sew
eral times every week the fund In sure
70 get letters from ex-soldiers who have
been home and out of the army for two
or three months or more. The time
doesn't make any difference except TO
add to their apologies for so long de-
laying to write in and thank the fund
for the tobacco they had from 1t In
Europe.
Urian Dayton, formerly member Of
the Rainbow Division, explains that he
10 writing now because he has not had
the opportunity to carry out what had
been his intention, which was to make
q personal call as soon after his return
last April as he could. Delaying for
this opportunity which never came he II
obliged to content himself with a letter.
In IL he says:
AFTER we landed in France my com
pRny several times received large
amount OF tobacco, cigars and cigarettes
from THE SUN Tobacco Fund which
were very much appreciated"
George w. Brophy. formerly of Com
pany e, 166th Infantry, writes: Every
man in the company thanked your pub
LEGATION for the prompt and timely ar
rival of cigarettes on moro than one
desperate occasion. This 10 about the
hrst chance have had to write how we
felt towards THE SUN Tobacco Fund"
II shall be stationed here, II seems,
throughout July, although I expected to
be relieved from the hospital corps OF
the navy long before and was meaning
to come down to New York to make .
little call on THE SUN. / was q thankful
recipient Of THE SUNS tobacco favors in
Europe. In fact, can remember a time
when the smoke from THE SUNS cigar
cites almost suffocated US. with Joy.
want to thank you for all you did for
the boys during the war and since"
This was written by Charles Moulton. U.
8. Naval Hospital, Newport.
Thanks Are Repeated.
Corporal Louis Doan of Company z.
i65th Infantry follows up grateful let
ter that he wrote from a military hospi-
tai in France last September by another
hardly less enthusiastic after he had re-
turned to this country and had plenty
OF time to forget that he had ever
smoked tobacco sent over by THE SUN
fund.
At FL Beekman place is a club for
wounded soldiers and sailors that has
been named Chateau Thierry." and
sible to hear accounts Of how THE Sun
Tobacco Fund helped OUT in times
when smokes seemed utterly unattain-
able. The subject OF what the fighting
men owed to the tobacco fund is always
coming to the fore.
Corporal Bosart of the Seventy-ninth
Division told of days at verdun when
the nghting was so severe that every day
began with a rolling barrage. The men
In his company were more anxious that
the supply OF smokes should be kept
open than that OF food. There were two
days. or almost two days. when the
"chow" carts did not md the men, but
supplied by THE SUN Tobacco Fund with
smoking and chewing tobacco shortly be-
fore this interruption of the chow, the
soldiers bore their hunger philosophi-
cally.
Robert Lang OF the s13th Infantry.
another club member, said this Of the
fund:
'T served nine months on four fronts
and the best thing We had anywhere
were the smokes from THE Sum. All OF
us fellows think that We can never thank
THE SUN and its many contributors
enough for the smokes sent over. for
without these smokes We would have
been utterly miserable much Of the
time"
These represent the consensus of opin-
ION In regard to the work done abroad
by the smoke fund as II finds spontan-
eous expression any day in the Chateau
Thierry Club. The soldiers convalescing
and entirely recovered unreservedly
praise the fund for continuing its work
months after the armistice. believing as
they do this work Ia still necessary. As
one soldier expressed It: Tobacco Is as
much needed now as 1t ever was and
perhaps 1t Is more needed now by the
boys still across the pond"
- Consta mt STREAM Of Cards.
While these appreciative sentiments
are finding expression among the dough-
boys VINO are safe back home a constant
stream OF cards meant to convey graft
tude to the fund donors comes from Eu-
rope signed by the men in the Army Of
Occupation and in the various camps
still open in France. One of the letters
"a this, which was addressed to Mr.. and
Mrs. A Pinchot by Private G, F.
Frisinger OF Company IS, Fourteenth
Grand Division. who was in Nantes
when he wrote II , Thanks very much
for the good tobacco from home and
thanks by you II you remember It to
The SUN Tobacco Fund for still keep
ing US boys in mind. We never have ac-
CURED any taste for these foreign
smokes and in spite OF our good friend
THE Sun we never have sufficient to-
bacco OF the kind we like. That sounds
ungrateful. but is only meant to show
how necessary We feel our home smokes
here. When we get back to Gods coun-
try and are again able to buy as well
as to roll our own we will appreciate
the privilege more than we did before
we came over here
Private william Pitt writes from SAT-
hg. Germany. on May IL to donor Miss
II. Bresched
Just few lines to let you know that
we enjoyed the tobacco you sent us
through THE Sun Tobacco Fund very
much. We also received a lot OF to-
bacco from THE SUN Tobacco Fund
while We were on the front lines and the
fellows naturally all have a good word
TO say for the fund Again thanking
you. dear Miss Bresched, very sincerely"
Karl Dylik OF Battery A. Fifth Field
Artillery. First Division. was ut Hins-
dorf. Germany. on May 20 when he re-
ceived his tobacco gift from the smoke
fund. He wrote at once to show his
pleasure and appreciation, and added a
line that 1t was the general belief among
the men OF the battery that the Army or
Occupation was going to march eastward
some time in June.
Mess Sergeant James L. King Jr ~
Company ]. 306th Pioneer Infantry. semi
this line over to Mrs. A. c. Randall a
fund donor: ''The boys OF this outfit "a
ceived your donation OF tobacco in good
condition the end Of May and thank vo,,
very much for II l should be proud ard
happy TO receive letter from YOU. Ad-
dress II. should you write. To IrnItsa
States Army Post ONCE 7lS"