The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-21
Roe Fulkerson, Kiwanis Editor

O have. and his name is Roe" Sounds ,i,,o something that belongs to a fish. doesn't itO
 Anyway. I don't know whether it was newspaper affinity" or just plain old common or garden variety that goes out and digs up an attractive clever. magnetic personality that in- terests YOU, and whom you like-and- and-well-
 You remember the song the children used to sing about
 King William was King James son, And all the royal race was run,
 Now choose the one that you love best.
 We'll that just exactly fits my case; and SD I embossed" MT. Kiwanis Roe Fulkerson for an interview CFooled you that time, didn't I? You thought l was going to say for nice llttle "flirtation." I don't know whether Vls- iting Kiwans" flirt or not; I'll tell you later-maybe. Home Kiwanises-do; ; some of em).
 Anyway, as I was sauntering forth yesterday to wish myself on MT Kiwanis Roe Fulkerson, l chanced on my way down to the Tutwiler to meet a very good friend of mine, native KiWanian q mean Birmingham Kiwanian-a nome Kiwanian. You couldn't miss 'em; they were $ thick as the sands of the seashore; like fleas, here, there and everywhere). "Whither goest thou, my pretty maid?" said my fluffy friend home Kiwanian."
 q go Interviewing sir, she said.
 And whom do you interview? name the 'victim'." (the mean thing) asked friend home Kiwanian."
 MT. Roe Fulkerson," said I glibly. You see I've chosen a big, fat, wooley oner
 But the point is Fulkerson isn't big or fat or wooley, he's long and slick and slim-like the other worm you know the little boy found" Don't you dare to say say it. I in- terpolated.
 Well, he's what I heard you say about tall, slim Slick Jim friend of yours once," said friend home Kiwan- ian, "he's high and scarce in other words, tall and slender; baldheaded and twinkled eyed (for illustrations see ac- companying cartoonO and he's a big high muck muck with the 'Masons :" Why, Dolly, he's more kinds of things with the 'Masons' than you ever heard of," continued friend home
 
 self same gentleman is "daffy" on the subjec of the .Masons," especially since he became a "thirty-second de- l gree Mason" just last week, and he's | as proud as a peacock over it. Why. | Mir. Fulkerson runs the Masonic fra | ternity in the D. of e. | What order is that?" I asked, inno- gently.
 "District of Columbia girl; it's not | a | whatever you call It," said friend home l Kiwanian, decidedly disgusted with my | ignorance MT. Fulkerson lives in Washington, you know; Washington. D. C.. and up there he's the whole show and they call him the Senior | Grand Warden of Grand Lodge. Grand Principal Sojourner of Grand Chapter. Past Grand Eminent Commander of the Washington commandery, Past Poten- | tate of the Mystic Shrine, Knight Con- 1 mander of the Court of Honor in the Scottish Rite. and an officer in all four
 of it's bodies in Washington, and | "Wh-ew-ww I shrieked, after that
 long list of grand things T don't l believe I've got the nerve to go and
 see a man that behaves like that!' 1 But I went-just the same-and when ] I found the Past Grand Master Editor | of 'The Kiwanis Torch" seated before
 his desk pushing the pen" I said to myself:
 | why he's perfectly tame, nothing to
 be afraid of in that nice looking, kind l ly man!'
 things about MT. Kiwanis Roe Fulker-
 son, besides all of those Masonic 1 things. He's the father of 'The Coat Girl" Sounds awfully wicked, doesn t it?) and of Andrew and Imogene." i (No, they are not twins, but perfectly good members of "The Married Fra ternity," who lived scrappily ever aft | erward" also of "The Visiting Doctor" l (syndicated in 50 papers,. and the Lord only knows what else. Oh, yes, "car-
 toonist" Che sketched the 'cartoon" of
 himself that I'm using with this story, while I was talking to him). Now, in the first place. let me tell you before I go any further in my story about MT. Roe Fulkerson, dis tinguished writer, author and editor From personal experience I have
 learned two things, namely, that the l apaciousness of mothersin-law and l the self-centeredness of professional | writers. are two things that exist only | in comic (sic) papers
 1 In other words, as the old saying goes, there ain't no sich animal in
 real life; on the other hand as we are dealing with the professional writer MT. Fulkerson, let me say that the man 1 is very human, very modest, and being | a professional humorist, is often very 1 humorous, which is something that cannot be said of all professional hu- morists.
 Possessing a clever and courtly manner a supple and versatile tongue 1 MT. Fulkerson also possesses a mag netism which is as difficult to define as it is to resist, and when my 1 first question popped out like a fat woman who uncorsets herself in a hur- ry, as to his predilections toward pro- fession, matrimony and the rest, ht
 laughed big, good natured, joll, laugh, and said:
 "I'm bald-headed been married, to one wife (and still am). and I write funny stories"