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title: Some Things Don't Need to be Seen
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-some-things-dont-need-to-be-seen-1951/
description: A blindfolded figure of Justice with scales and sword covers her eyes with her hand as clouds of smoke or fog lettered 'Tax Scandals' surround her.
section: Collection
---

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[![Some Things Don't Need to be Seen, 1951 US cartoon: A blindfolded figure of Justice with scales and sword covers her eyes](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/berryman-some-things-dont-need-to-be-seen-1951.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/berryman-some-things-dont-need-to-be-seen-1951.jpg)

# Some Things Don't Need to be Seen

A blindfolded figure of Justice with scales and sword covers her eyes with her hand as clouds of smoke or fog lettered 'Tax Scandals' surround her. The traditional emblem of Justice is applied to the topic of the scandals (transfer, weak fit); the title, 'Some Things Don't Need to be Seen', is NARA's and is not printed on the drawing.

## Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
TAX SCANDALS
JIM BERRYMAN
```

[← 和平祈祷 (Pray for Peace) / The Russian Wolf (Chinese poster distributed in Asia)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/russian-wolf-pray-for-peace-chinese-1951/) [Kinahanglan ang Pagbuligay sa Katilingban (Community Help Is Needed): Farmers' Calendar on the Rice Stem Borer (Cebuano poster distributed in the Philippines) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/rice-stem-borer-farmers-calendar-cebuano-philippines-1951/)

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