The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-28
FUND GETS THANKS
FROM RHINE TO SEA
Enthusiasm Stirred In All
Ranks by Gifts Of Real
Yankee Tobacco.
WELCOME AS SPRING DAY
awe Hope You Will Never
Forget U.s." Soldiers Call
to Donors.
WELCOME AS SPRING DAY

To appreciate the ubfQuity Of THE SUN
Tobacco Fund II is necessary to consult
the return post cards that have come
from various parts OF France and Ger
many within a day or two. From the
Rhine zone to the sea and even at sea
and from Belgium to the Pyrenees
American soldiers in entrainment camps,
in billets, in camp hospitals, on "hikes.'
wherever. in a word, our soldiers were to
be found abroad in the first week of this
month. they were smoking the fund to-
,bacco. They say 80 themselves and
surely nobody interested needs better
proof.
fund and Its donors varies according
to the soldier. The apathetio man is
stirred to unwonted enthusiasm and the
emotional man resorts usually either to
amateur illustration of his Joy or to
poetry. so-called. But in one remark
they do not vary; this has reference to
the necessity OF tobacco being greater
now while waiting for peace to be signed
than at any time of campaigning.
Picking up a few cards at random to
show this quality of going everywhere,
admitted to he a possession OF THE SUN
Tobacco Fund here -are half a dozen to
be quoted from. The first is signed by
the First Platoon OF Company c. 1881
Machine Gun Battalion. 1t reads:
-Four -andforty men who saw ser
vice at the front, Champagne sector in
cluded. were very much pleased to-day
to receive a carton OF Bull Durham.
Tobacco is the one thing that the Ameri-
can Expeditionary Forces always APP
preciate. and we wish to express our
thanks to THE Sun and to J. C. Davis
for their part in the supply to A. L. f.
men"
From Brest comes this card. written
by r. l.. Lightner. who may now be on
the ocean smoking the fund tobacco. as
he writes:
Just on the eve OF sailing for home
we had an issue OF your SUN tobacco II
lightened us OF dread that We should
have nothing TO smoke for eight to ten
days. Thank you"
Cards From Embarkatfon Ports.
Cards are in also from st. Nazaire
and Bordeaux to the same effect Rc-
knowledsing the receipt of tobacco
shortly before going on board the boat
to sail for home. The Bordeaux card
IS dated March 6 and is signed by Ser
geant A H. Ayres of Camp Funston
Casual Detachment 115th Supply Train,
Fortieth Division. who writes:
This Is to acknowledge receipt OF one
OF those generous sacks Of tobacco more
commonly known as The Makins of a
Nation 1t was the first sack of smoking
tobacco I had had in two or three months
and / am very fond OF that brand OF
Gigs and Tux for my pipe. was Won
derng where | should get either. when
along came your Sun gift
These cards were sent while the men
were all ready to 20 on transport
headed for home. Here is one written
by Sidney l.. Holmes of Geneva, MINI,
March 10, at sea. He wrote on board the
u. S. S. Haverford. bound home"
May IL please you TO know that your
gift has been duly received and is very
much appreciated. II you have hus-
band brother or son Che was writing to
woman donor. who uses tobacco ask
him what 1t means TO be without 1t for
days at a time, Really there are some
who do not understand. but there are
many more who know that often n pipe
or a cigarette is a fellows only friend.
Thanking you. l am your soldier"
The boys who were recovering in
Camp Hospital the address of which IS
A T. o. 796, have written direct to THE
SUN Tobacco Fund. saying: We are In
receipt OF one carton OF smoking to-
bacco which was donated by this fund
II was more welcome than the flowers In
spring. 1t was good for all the patients
and we want to thank THE SUN To-
bacco Fund for what they have done"
Sergeant J. W. Brandon OF Headquar-
tiers Company. 354th Infantry, Eighty
ninth Division, writes from Neuerburg
Germany. TO the Canoe Brook Country
Club: Smokes were received in fine
shape. Many thanks. My buddie and !
would like to visit your club on arriving
In New York We are in a lonesome old
place right now. but such Is the life OF
doughboy With best wishes and good
cheer"