 Later in 1923, the eleven-year-old boy Willard Motley submitted a drawing to the "Chicago Defender" of a pudgy and cheerful boy, which Abbott named the "new Billikin".The name "Bud Billiken" is a pseudonym that Abbott selected for the organization, using his own nickname "Bud"; the word "Billiken" was believed to be in reference to a character in Chinese mythology who was the protector of children.Though the billiken was actually created by an American woman in 1908, the figure still represented the guardian angel and patron of children and Abbott placed Motley’s drawing on the paper’s children’s page, the "Defender Junior".