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Show TOBACCO FUND GROWING DAILY I PUBLIC RESPONSE IS GENEROUS AMERICAN soldiers in the signal corps over in France are always glad to be the recipients of "good old Yankee to-I to-I bacco" from patriotic and thoughtful contributors to The Tribune Tobacco fund. l',r f, wk lr JiJP First Week's Drive in Campaign Cam-paign Holds Promise of Future Success. THE TRIBUNE'S TOBACCO FUND at beginning of the second week's campaign amounts to $425.75. THAT'S GOING SOME! But this week we're going 'em one better. Everybody with red American blood In his veins is stepping right in line, arousing arous-ing enthusiasm In the patriotic cause for which the fund stands and the chances are good that the first week's fund will be triplicated. Tn his famous book, "Over the Top," from which we like, to quote because it contains such graphic and realistic pictures pic-tures of conditions as they are known to exist in the European war zones, Arthur Guy Empey gives a thrilling description o the way he felt Just before the order came to go "over the top." Here's a little bit of it. At 10 minutes to 4 word was passed down. "Ten minutes to go.' Ten minutes to live We were shivering all over. Then word was passed down: "First wave get near the scaling ladders!" These were small wooden ladders which we had placed against the parapet to enable us to go over the top on the lifting of the barrage. "Ladders of Death" . we called them, and veritably they were. Before a charge Tommy is the politest po-litest of men. There is never .any pushing or crowding to be first up these ladders. We crouched around the base of the ladders, watting for the word to go over. I was sick and faint and puffing away at a cigarette. cig-arette. Then came the word, "Three minutes to go" ; upon the lifting of the barrage and on the blast, of the whistles, "Over the top with the best of luck and give 'em hell," the famous fa-mous phrase of the western front. That Is a picture of a man's emotions .lust before the big test, and no one can pass over the point that here was one of the times when he had to have his ciga rette. These are only a few points from one of the many books written about conditions condi-tions on t he western front, which have something definite to say on the need of tobacco and cigarettes abroad- H is good straight talk and we have reproduced it here for the benefit of our readers and possible contributors to our tobacco fund. Address all contributions to The Tribune Trib-une Tobacco Fund, Tribune, Salt Lake Citv, Utah. |