A Rebel Cartoonist - Ryan Walker
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12 THE EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. January 25. 1913. A REBEL CARTOONIST. Ryan Walker Strikes Out Against So- ciety's Wrongs with a Voice of Thunder and a Hand of Steel. Ryan Walker’s work is his best bi- ographer, and in it we see the man mir- rored, strong and true. His is a rebel- lious spirit, rebellious against the crying evils which to-day stain our civilization and menace our progress. Not only are our wrongs pictured vividly in Mr. Walker’s cartoons, but he furnishes us with a plan — according to his philoso- phy—which will prove an antidote, elim- inating the present burdens of society. Embracing this fine ideal of a per- fect social order in the future, Mr. Walker is not pessimistic, but like others wrho are engaged in the same work with himself, he sometimes grows impatient at delay, and his cartoons cry out his unrest in a voice of thunder. i Especially does he throw the search- light upon hypocrisy and graft, expos- ing them in their nudity. The protection , of the strong at the expense of the ' weak is a subject which he has dealt ! with mercilessly. He is big-hearted, open-handed and j sympathetic. He recognizes no one na- | Lion above another. The world is his country. He does not discriminate in the matter of race. All men are his brothers. “Until the Golden Rule be- comes our common law and is observed by every man and woman, the world cannot have justice, and without jus- tice the world is unfit for the children i of men.” So says Mr. Walker. BEGAN CAREER IN THE WEST. His career as an artist began in the West. His first work was done when he , was in his te ns and consisted ot mak- ing “ad cuts” for a morning paper. He drew pictures of everything from a mouse trap to a wind-mill. One day, -after completing what was at the time his masterpiece — an elaborate dining room set for an advertiser, he boldly asked to be promoted. The thing he wished most to do was to create a design to appear at the top of the So- ciety Column in the Sunday issue of the paper. , The editor was kind, and the youthful j artist set himself to realize his dream. \ Several days later he carried to the ' Sunday editor a drawing of a snub- ' nosed, wild-haired, cherry-mouthed girl in chorus costume, carrying a banner j on which was the word, “Society.” It I goes without saying that the editor 1 could not agree with him as to the ap- propriate place for the wind-blown chorus girl, but he brutally said she should not caper across the top of his “Society Column.” A SHIP THAT SAILED BACKWARDS. But the “ad cut” days were soon over and young Walker evolved into a full- fledged political cartoonist. One of his first efforts in this line was a ship at sea, bearing certain politicians. The ves- sel was sailing backwards. But it was not till some days after the publication of the picture that a brother artist whis- pered to the cartoonist of his error. In consequence, Ryan Walker avoided the editorial staff for several weeks, coming and going by means of four flights of dark stairs. When at last he OBITUARY NOTES. Solomon W. Johnson, eighty-three years old, president of the American News Co., died of pneumonia at his home in this city last Sunday. Mr. Johnson was born in the Catskill Moun- tains, and moved to New York when a boy. He sold papers and had charge of a newspaper route for the Herald. Later he rented a shop at 22 Ann street and sold a variety of publications. From this he branched into the wholesale business, and became one of the found- ers of the American News Co., with John Hamilton and Henry Dexter. W. N. Huse, one of the best-known newspaper men in Nebraska, and* for 24 years editor and publisher of the Norfolk Daily News, died Jan. 13 after a long illness. He was fifty-five years i old. I Knute E. Edwards, president of the i American Contractor Publishing Co., died last week in Chicago. He was born Feb. 21, 1833, and was connected : with the American Contractor for about thirty years. He returned recently from a trip through the principal European capitals. Robert W. Gauss, sixty-one years old, an editorial writer on the Denver I Republican for twenty-eight years, died ' of heart disease Sunday in his apart- ments in that city. He left instructions that his brain be weighed, photographed and analyzed for the benefit of science. RYAN WALKER, CARTOONIST and lecturer. James Miller, who was secretary of the Harrisburg (Pa.) Telegraph Co., from 1801 to 1910, died on Jan. 10 in his seventy-eighth year. Frank W. Lordan, sixty-five years old. died at his home in Buffalo last week after a two weeks’ illness. He was formerly sporting editor of the St. Louis Republic, and was employed by the Buffalo Courier for years. THE NEWS BUFFALO, N. Y. Circulation for Year, 1912 99,565 EDWARD H. BUTLER, Editor ind Prop’r KELLY-SMITH CO., Foreign Representatives Chicago Peoples Gas Bldg. New York City 220 Fifth Avenue ventured to use the (levator again, the editorial staff greeted him as of old. Evidently that august body had not no- ticed the peculiar conduct of Walker’s ship. These interesting events took place in Kansas City, Mo., and the paper respon- sible for the backward sailing ship wa* the Kansas City Times. With that paper Mr. Walker remained till in his early twenties, at which time he went to St Louis to fill the position of cartoonist on the St. Louis Republic. After three years with the Republic, he resigned and went to Boston, where he spent one winter. While there he contributed reg- ularly to Life and one of the Boston morning papers. But having become a sort of journeyman artist, so to speak, he decided to try his luck in New York. became a free lance. During several years that followed, Mr. Walker free-lanced, contributing to daily papers and weekly and monthly magazines, the publications using his cartoons and caricatures included the Mail and Express, the New York Times, Life, judge, the Bookman, the Arena Magazine, the Twentieth Century Maga- zine, the Telegraph and others. Some few years ago he became asso- ciated with a newspaper syndicate lo- cated in Baltimore, turning out a vast amount of work. Dining the last Presi- dential campaign he furnished to the syndicate eighteen cartoons weekly, be- sides a number of sketches. Following a break-down in health six months ago, he severed his connec- tions with the Baltimore concern, and arranged to furnish cartoons to two Socialist weeklies, the Appeal to Reason and the Coming Nation. At present Mr. Walker is giving a se- ries of chalk talks along political lines. His hooking takes him into every city and town of importance in the country, and his tour will run well into the sum- mer. But he finds time while traveling to make his regular weekly cartoon. Breakfast to John A. Hennessy. The staff of the New York Press en- tertained John A. Hennessy, former managing editor of that paper, at the Press Club early Sunday morning. The members presented Mr. Hennessy with a hunting outfit, including a fine shot- gun with exquisitely engraved lock plates. James C. Garrison, managing editor of the Press, made the presenta- tion speech. A breakfast and an en- tertainment followed. John A. Lout, former editor of Tam town, N. Y„ newspapers, died suddenly at Florrisant, Mo., on Jan. 17. He was seventy years old. and had been a newspaper man all his life. Sun Adopt* New Ad Department. i The New York Evening Sun estab- lished on January 20, in its advertising J columns, a new feature in the form of | an investigated employment department for help wanted in all classes, all re- plies to which will he fully investigated without additional charge for the benefit ot advertisers. Mrs. Mary Hutton Pell, 1 president of the Bureau of Social Re- quirements, is in charge of the de- ! partment, which will have the co-opera- ! tion of her agency in the investigation j of the applicants. | McCann Company'* Detroit Office. ' The H. K. McCann Co., advertising agents, has opened offices in the Boyer •Building. Detroit, to cover the Middle I West field. Gleeson Murphy, formerly ! assistant to the president of the General Motors Co., and Fred M. Randall, re- cently manager of the Detroit office of the Charles H. Fuller Co., are in charge of the Detroit organization. THE New Orleans Item U. S. P. O. REPORT Six Month*’ Average Circulation. Picayune 19,882 Times-Democrat 22,400 States 29,257 Item 44-752 THE JOHN BUDD COMPANY Adverttstnfl Representative* New York Chicago St. Louis News League of Ohio Average Daily Circulation for year end- ing Dec. 31, 1912, Dayton News, 31,738 Springfield News, 11,542 During the year the Dayton News carried in Foreign Advertising 1,224,356 lines, or within 16,366 lines as much as all other Dayton papers combined. The Springfield News carried 1,077,552 lines of Foreign Advertising, or 583,842 lines more than the other Springfield papers. It pays to use the News League. Combination rate, 6c. a line. News League of Ohio, Desk N, Dayton, 0. New York — LaCoste & Maxwell, Monolith Building. Chicago — John Glass, People’s Gas Bldg. PROGRESS of a most phenomenal year is closely linked and identified with Pittsburgh’s progres- sive newspaper — in the great Pittsburgh district — THE PITTSBURGH POST (Every Morning and Sunday.) The annual gains in advertising and cir- culation attest a remarkable record by a paper that gets in with the people. EMIL M. SCHOLZ, General Manager CONE, LORENZEN ft WOODMAN, Foreign Representatives, NEW YORK. CHICAGO. Digitized by Google