--- title: Ask Your Postmaster or Apply at Navy Recruiting Station url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ask-your-postmaster-or-apply-at-navy-recruiting-station-1917/ description: A text-only panel sets out pay rates, a free outfit, pensions, family death benefit and promotion to Annapolis. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Ask Your Postmaster or Apply at Navy Recruiting Station [![Ask Your Postmaster or Apply at Navy Recruiting Station, 1917 US poster: A text-only panel sets out pay rates, a free outfit](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/ask-your-postmaster-or-apply-at-navy-recruiting-station-1917.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/ask-your-postmaster-or-apply-at-navy-recruiting-station-1917.jpg) # Ask Your Postmaster or Apply at Navy Recruiting Station A text-only panel sets out pay rates, a free outfit, pensions, family death benefit and promotion to Annapolis, closing with addresses of the New York recruiting station. The tell is the selection of material benefits and security ('no strikes or layoffs') alongside the claim that the Navy 'was the very first to get in the war'; risks are not mentioned. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` offers American citizens of good character, of ages 17 to 34 inclusive, in sound physical condition, the best chance to SERVE THEIR COUNTRY. Navy men and Navy ships are abroad now. The Navy was the very first to get in the war, and is fighting "over there" side by side with our allies. Your pay is clear money and you have no expenses when you enlist. An outfit worth $60 is furnished and should last a year. A man's pay starts at $32.60 a month. All men have an opportunity of learning the trade of seaman, and that trade, as American shipping expands, is bound to be a good one. Men having trades enlist at pay varying from $41.00 to $77.50, and their advancement is certain and rapid. There are no strikes or layoffs. You are taken care of when you are sick, and your pay still goes on. If disabled, whether in time of peace or war, you are given a liberal pension. If you should lose your life in the line of duty, your family gets half a year's pay. Every year 100 men are picked from the ranks to go to the Naval Academy, Annapolis, to be made officers ASK YOUR POSTMASTER OR APPLY AT, or WRITE TO NAVY RECRUITING STATION, 34 East 23d St. NEW YORK 130 West St. AND FULL INFORMATION WILL BE FURNISHED YOU. [handwritten pencil mark at lower left, partly legible: 2-85] ``` [← America's Food Pledge: 20 Million Tons](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/americas-food-pledge-20-million-tons-1917/) [Automobile Drivers Do Your Bit! Drive a Motor Truck for Uncle Sam →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/automobile-drivers-do-your-bit-motor-truck-uncle-sam-1917/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.