--- title: 'The 25 Club [9]: War Savings Stamp booklet, August 1945 page and ''What Your War Savings Do for You''' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-25-club-war-savings-what-they-do-1945/ description: A booklet spread with an August 1945 calendar page urging 'Buy at least one stamp each week!' beside a text page, 'What your war savings do for you'. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. The 25 Club [9]: War Savings Stamp booklet, August 1945 page and 'What [![The 25 Club \[9\]: War Savings Stamp booklet, August 1945 page and 'What Your War Savings Do for You', 1945 Canada document](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-25-club-war-savings-what-they-do-1945.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-25-club-war-savings-what-they-do-1945.jpg) # The 25 Club [9]: War Savings Stamp booklet, August 1945 page and 'What Your War Savings Do for You' A booklet spread with an August 1945 calendar page urging 'Buy at least one stamp each week!' beside a text page, 'What your war savings do for you'. The text states $24.00 of stamps return $30.00 at maturity (3% compounded semi-annually), no income tax on the gain, and that certificates are a direct obligation of the Dominion of Canada. The tell for card-stacking is selection: the page lists the return, tax treatment and post-war purchasing, with no mention of risks or of purchasing power, though it does state its own figures. ## Propaganda techniques used in this document [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` BUY AT LEAST ONE STAMP EACH WEEK! MAKE IT TWO- FILL THE PAGE 1945 August 1945 WHAT YOUR WAR SAVINGS DO FOR YOU If you have filled all the pages of this Book of the Year you will have purchased $24.00 worth of War Savings Stamps. These, if invested in War Savings Certificates will give you a return, at maturity, of $30.00. (Certificates valued at $5.00, $10.00 and $25.00 may be purchased at any Bank or Post Office in exchange for stamps). This increase of 25% represents interest at 3% compounded semi-annually. No income tax is payable on the difference between purchase price and redemption value of War Savings Certificates. When the war is over, War Savings Certificates will pay for the things you want to buy-so keep on saving till the job is done-then take your choice of the things to come. WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES ARE A DIRECT OBLIGATION OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA. ``` [← The 25 Club \[8\]: War Savings Stamp booklet, June-July 1945 calendar pages](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-25-club-stamp-booklet-june-july-1945/) [Food Stamp News, February 1945, front page: Friday Is Stamp Day (Canada, February 1945) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-food-stamp-news-friday-is-stamp-day-1945/) ## 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.