---
title: 'A war message: Stop pleasure travel! Railroads are war roads'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/a-war-message-stop-pleasure-travel-1944/
description: 'Narrow typographic card: ''A WAR MESSAGE'' in a red frame, ''STOP PLEASURE TRAVEL!'' in blue, and ''RAIL ROADS ARE WAR ROADS'' in white on a red block.'
section: Collection
---

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[![A war message: Stop pleasure travel! Railroads are war roads, 1944 US poster: Narrow typographic card](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/a-war-message-stop-pleasure-travel-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/a-war-message-stop-pleasure-travel-1944.jpg)

# A war message: Stop pleasure travel! Railroads are war roads

Narrow typographic card: 'A WAR MESSAGE' in a red frame, 'STOP PLEASURE TRAVEL!' in blue, and 'RAIL ROADS ARE WAR ROADS' in white on a red block. There is no picture. The technique is faint: a slogan recasts rail travel as a war use, a broad virtue-word framing rather than an argument.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
A WAR
MESSAGE
STOP
PLEASURE
TRAVEL!
RAIL
ROADS
ARE
WAR
ROADS
[imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944-O-595955
```

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