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Show ANY CHILDREN? YOU CAN T OCCUPY HIS HOMES WITHOUT THEM WAfTfi? p rULKCPSON n. E. v stai r Special r st. Joseph, m.. , juiy 19 "May his tribe Increase!" This is the sulstani e of hundreds of lctie-s 61 praise received by Walter Wal-ter P Fulkerson. banker, .-since his announcement u few days ago that he would build houses for people with children, that onl those who had children could rent his homos, that newly-weds who had no child at the end of a year must give way to thotc in whose home the happy laughter of: little children rang- Fulkerson has received from 200 to 300 letters from Maine to California Califor-nia praising him as a pilot who is Mazing forth the dawn- of ,a better day for children. And his orfice in the Bank of Buchanan county of whicn hv ill pree-dent, pree-dent, is ihe scene of a continuous stream of visitors who wani a hou a home where children will be welcome, wel-come, where they may bring up their kiddies in a decent community and start them in life s struggle at least not with the handicap so many are now forced to bear through bandish-: men) to homes none wnulu live In, eX-J ci pi as a last resort. r'ulkerson is .simply a plain, straight forward American business man who wants to do his bit. Fur years he' has been known in St. Joe as a coui-' munlty builder." "I aidn t know what I started when I made mv announcement," he said.! "I'd been thinking a ion? time about the way landlords place a premium on childlessness. 1 never could see any-thing any-thing wrong ri children 1 have two mighty fine children myvelf, Their mother is dead I "I've been in school board work for n long time guess because I'm rather Kood-naturecl ami like le:ti-liik. le:ti-liik. in problems of the children, w ben. other business men begged off with, the excuse they ere too busy, Ihey always turned to me Then, eubeon doualy I suppose, what Theodore Roosevelt preached on race suicide helped plant the Idea." Fulkerson explained that he had read in a local paper an advertisement advertise-ment of homes for rent with these two words in big type: " No children " 'Next day 1 talked with a local newspaper man," said Fulkerson. "Why that ad is an Insult to all children. chil-dren. I told him. N bat have children chil-dren aono to deserve such sweeping condemnation 7 1 told him 1 believed be-lieved I would build a bunch of houses in one of our be-st residential diet riots for no one luit families w ,th hlidren That was the announcement." announce-ment." Fulkerson took me out in his car to view the houses he is building. The are in an attractive district, Just off St. Joe's Lover s I jane," that Eugene Field longed for and made famous. Each will coil about $5,500. exclusive exclu-sive of lot. They will rent for from $40 to $50. The houses he plalis to build 36 will face a binutiful park. A flno school li nearby The houses will be real homes in every sense of the word gardens, room for a tennis courL etc. "The other system s all wrong Jt forces families to turn to race suicide. sui-cide. If others here and In every city win follow me 1 will feel 1 have been amply rewarded." When the stork visits one of Ful-kerson's Ful-kerson's houses, that month"s rent is to be returned' |