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Show SOLACE ASSURED 10 SOLOIEH FREE Loyal Citizens Contribute to Tobacco Fund for Fighting Fight-ing Forces. GUESTS IN HOTEL AID Gratifying Results Follow Efforts to Cheer Lads in the Trenches. It's pretty comfortable in your office of-fice when your coat, is off. the windows are open, the electric fan is on the job and there's a box of cigarettes handy and a pipe when you want it, with plenty of tobacco also a box of fine cigars in one of the drawers. But it is difforent over in France. Those Sammies of ours are awfully shy on Bmokes, good smokes; they don 't like the French tobacco and thoy want the kind they are used to. The Tribune tobacco fund makes it easy for you to send cigarettes to the 6oldic-rs. This paper has made arrange ments to send a man in the trenches 45 cents' worth of tobacco for every 25 cents donated. Tobacco is like an overwhelming host when comrades foregather for a few hours of rest from their long vigils in the trenches. It is when pipes are lighted or when cigarettes are glowing like fireflies in the watches of the night, in some deep down shelter, that men return to their humanity. Bring Much Comfort. Ou more than one occasion the leaves of solace have eased the a.gony of the wounded and made possiblo the bearing ot mterse Buttering m patience, a no influence of tobacco, be it more on t-ho mind than on the body if you will have it. so, is none the less great when the body if tortured by pain. General Leonard Wood, former commander com-mander of the department of the east and designated to command a division of the national army to,be mobilized at Fort Eile.y, Kan., said recently: The idea of sending tobacco to the American soldiers in France is a capital one. Nothing gives a soldier sol-dier in the field more pleasure and contentment than a cool, refreshing refresh-ing smoke after a hard day's fighting fight-ing or while awaiting the call to the firing line. Life in the trenches is very hard, and I know the American soldiers will appreciate and enjoy remembrances remem-brances in the form of tobacco, cigars, cigarettes and pipes. Theatrical Women Help. The packets of tobacco sent to the men at the front mean far more than so many ounces of dried leaves. They mean a call that somewhere there is a man, woman or child who is in sympathy sym-pathy with the boys "out there." Trio most gratifying result yet obtained ob-tained from The Tribune's campaign to provide the Sammies at tho front with tobacco was the receipt by the Tobacco Fund editor yesterday of a check for i(i24.25 from C. O. Stiles, who is a guest at the Semloh hotel. This amount was made up from ninety-seven single contributions con-tributions of 25 cents each, collected from guests about tho hotel. Much of it was obtained by theatrical women staying at the hotel, who volunteered to solicit contributions for the boys in France. Another feature of yesterday's campaign cam-paign was the receipt of a check for $2, accompanying a letter signed by Hugh A. McMillin. in which he wrote as follows: fol-lows: Please add my mite to your tobacco to-bacco fund. I have a vivid recollection recollec-tion of the comforting solace of a smoke in the Philippines after an enforced abstinence for a period of time. All contributions should be addressed to the Tobacco Fund, Tribune, Salt Lake City, Utah. |