Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-21
i WELLINGTON, KANSAS
By DR.. Frank Crane

In WELLINGTON, Kan. they have an organi-
sation known as the wellington Home Foun-
dalton.
A number of citizens, rich and poor, have
Clipped in and established a fund, from
which loans are made to any one desiring to
buy home.
The solidity and morality of a community
is in significant proportion to the number OF
it's people who own their own homes.
I home owner makes poor soil for the
nourishment If the bacillus bolshevikus
No means have yet been discovered more
certain to make man decent than 10 nave
a house and yard of his own, where ne can
he bossed by his own wife and look after
his own children
Mainly instrumental in establishing this
foundation was Fl. L. Woods, who owns ana
edits the Wellington Daily News. In a re-
cent letter to me Mr.. Woods relates no" IL
all started:
THE vision of the Foundation" he says,
"grew out of my own experiences. In the
first ten years of my married life 1 moved
ten times-the last removal being because
could not pay the rent. When was look
ing for a new habitation friend came to me
and suggested that 1 should have home
of my own; 1 confided that was moving be-
cause could not pay $40 month and must
have a cheaper house, by which he could
see that owning home was an lmposslolNty
for me.
for $3.50 if you can raise $50 to pay down;
it is good deal of a shack, but it is the
kind you are trying to rent 1 found the
$50 and moved in. had never had as
much as 500 at one time since being mar
ried and in the many removals l had seen
Mrs. Woods trying to fit old carpets to new
squares old curtains to new windows, and
so placing the pictures to cover the cracks
in plastering to the best advantage that it
nearly broke my heart and nowadays never
see a woman on load of furniture moving
across town that it does not cause a gulp in
my throat.
after aking the first payment we lived
on almost nothing, and I astonished myself
! by paying out and getting deed in one
| year. ......
"It taught me something I had not be-
fore known-How to Save. Also it convinced
me that the age-old advice Save and get
| Home is not the best advice Tor most fami-
| lies, but should be changed to Get home
and save"
| Two years ago Mr.. Woods conceived the
| idea that others might be helped in a SINH
| lar way. A number of business men started
| campaign, company was formed and
they now have fund of over $4,000.
They lend to home seekers. SD far no
! borrower has been so much as one day late
in making his monthly payment, and there
| las been no loss.
Wellington is real American town. 1t
has the largest park acreage per capita of
any city in the United States.
1t has the only municipal golf links that
I know of west of the Mississippi 1t is
FUSED by bankers BARRIERS, clerks, and every
| body else except cripples.
| 1t has a Park House. or Community House.
where any woman can entertain. 1t is con-
stantly in use.
| 1t has a Stadium for athletic sports, and
| in it all the Churches combine and worship
during July and August.
It is planning to take over whole block
| for civic center, and has voted $140,0
| to build a new auditorium.
| On the whole it is the kind of town that
is peculiarly American, kind found in no
| other country on earth.
! Out of such towns come the boys and girls
that are going to be the preferred stock of
! the human race
Copyright, 1922, by Frank Crane)
| Fine motto: Don't look for wider fields I'M
! til you cultivate those you have.
\ All was fair. in love and war hut the neac