The Smith Family Comic Strip by Mr. & Mrs. George and Virginia Smith

5/21/22

Jersey Journal Saturday Jan 28 1961 Jersey City NJ

5/20/22

Washington Star - Washington DC - 1968

5/18/22

“For truth is true and nothing else is true ONLY TRUTH IS TRUE!

There's no striation

In God's creation --

His Kingdom will come

When we see we're One.

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In your conflicting roles

You see conflicting goals --

You seek earthly gain,

But hold it in disdain.

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We hear a thousand voices

Giving us a thousand choices,

But they are all One.

The time of conflict is done --

Let in God's Sun --

We may as well have fun--

Our real choice is none --

Heaven has won.

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We think we're learning

While the world is burning,

But since TRUTH IS TRUE

It's the only choice for you.

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We will never rest

Till we put it to the test --

Clearly one is best --

In this you must invest.

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To free your body, bind it.

Lose your life to find it.

Ending separation

Will end your frustration.

Give it all it's worth:

This is your Heaven on earth.

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Stop your resistance

To the truth of existence,

Or false truth will appear

And give you new fear.

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Heaven is the gift you must take;

Heaven is the choice you must make,

But truth you must never forsake --

You're safe in God's Arms, now awake!

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Love which created me is what I am -Love George

5/14/22

October 1941 The American Legion Magazine

In the months following Pearl Harbor, thousands of men enlisted in the armed forces. Many artists joined up and began to practice their trade as soldier-artists by decorating barracks and mess halls with murals depicting military subjects. Some of these painters became the nucleus of the art programs established by the War Department in 1942 and 1943. While the army project was cancelled by Congress in August 1943, a number of artists were taken on by Life magazine and other publications. The army reinstated an art program in 1944 which lasted through the duration of the war. Other artists could be found in the ranks of the Marine Corps, the Women's Army Corps, the Army Air Corps and the Coast Guard, while still others served in combat battalions, camouflage units, or as official photographers.

The Hobo News January 22 1946 - George says he's saving on cards and stamps this Christmas -

Published from February 1937 to April 20,1948, The Hobo News was one of the most unusual newspapers of the first half of the 20th century in America. It printed poems, jokes, cartoons, pin-ups, and articles and news items about politics, law enforcement, and employment that were useful to that unique class of men who rode the rails and frequented flop-houses - the American hobo.The paper was run by hobos, for hobos. It was published by Patrick ("Pat") "The Roaming Dreamer" Mulkern (1903 - 1948), who served as editor and Benjamin ("Ben") "The Coast Kid" Benson, associate editor and business manager. Printed proudly across the awnings of their assorted offices were the paper's motto " A Little Cheer To Match The Sorrow."Copies were also sometimes sold on street corners for 10 cents as a way for the homeless to make money without begging. Associate editor Benson made national headlines in 1937 when he was hauled into a Manhattan court for peddling copies of the paper in Times Square without a license. Benson (a diminutive man who only weighed 90 pounds and was known as "the smallest professional hobo in the business") indignantly argued to the judge that The Hobo News was a legitimate newspaper and that freedom of the press was being violated - but the judge ruled against him. Mulkern recognized that no self-respecting litigator would ever stoop to sue a newspaper with such a pathetic name, and so the paper was voluntarily in constant violation of U.S. copyright law by habitually reprinting the articles they most admired that had earlier appeared in Collier's, The New Yorker and The Saturday Evening Post. Unlike the paper's intended readership, The Hobo News made small achievements every day, which allowed them to hire additional staff and operate in bigger up-town offices; at the peak of their performance, Mulkern and his crew were able to boast of a circulation that numbered 123,000. In light of the fact that The Hobo News had an entirely unorthodox hiring policy and refused to print advertisements in order to support itself, the paper had a surprisingly long life. It received additional national attention when "An Informal History Of The Hobo News," a reminiscence of the paper's origins, was written for the October 6, 1945 issue of Collier's (who apparently bore no grudge for the pirating of their articles by The Hobo News) by Jack Harris, himself a former hobo (and, as he said, "apt to be one again any minute"). When The Hobo News went under in 1948, following Mulkern's death, it was replaced by Bowery News (named after the Bowery area in Manhattan), but that paper was short-lived. As you can imagine, copies of this publication are today quite rare.