1912–13 Volume 37 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

128 THE SCROLLhis assistant at $20 a week. I refrained from fainting and acceptedthe offer. I have never had any practical education in art, but havealways drawn pictures better than I could do; anything else except:ride horses.In 1896 I went to the Kansas City Journal, and, two years later,was given charge of its art and engraving departments. The InlandHiRBEEi RAYMOND JOHNSON, Nebraska, '03Cartoonist for Philadelphia North American, Saturday Evening Post, Life, etc.Courtesy of Mr. Will R. Macdonald, Editor of Cartoons, Chicago.Printer, of Chicago, printed a story about me at the time as one ofthe youngest art managers in the country. In 1899 I returned toLincoln and entered the University of Nebraska, where I earned mycollege expenses by acting as managing editor and artist for the collegeweekly. My course at the university did not include trainingin art, much to my subsequent regret.In the second year of my course my health failed, and I went to