--- title: Here's What Your War Savings Do For You... url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-heres-what-your-war-savings-do-for-you-1939/ description: 'A poster lists five claims: war savings help win the war, help you save, earn money for you, provide cash in emergency and will buy post-war goods.' section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Here's What Your War Savings Do For You... [![Here's What Your War Savings Do For You..., 1939 Canada poster: A poster lists five claims](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-heres-what-your-war-savings-do-for-you-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-heres-what-your-war-savings-do-for-you-1939.jpg) # Here's What Your War Savings Do For You... A poster lists five claims: war savings help win the war, help you save, earn money for you, provide cash in emergency and will buy post-war goods, beside Dominion of Canada Victory Loan and War Savings Certificate illustrations and the line 'Always consult your committee for advice'. The tell for card-stacking is the list of benefits with no costs or risks; for transfer, the reproduced government certificates lend official standing to the savings pitch. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` Here's what your WAR SAVINGS DO FOR YOU... 1 THEY HELP WIN THE WAR 2 THEY HELP YOU SAVE 3 THEY EARN MONEY FOR YOU 4 THEY PROVIDE CASH IN EMERGENCY 5 THEY WILL BUY POST-WAR GOODS ALWAYS Consult YOUR COMMITTEE FOR ADVICE.... [certificates:] DOMINION OF CANADA VICTORY LOAN PER 3 CENT; WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATE / CERTIFICAT D'EPARGNE DE GUERRE ``` [← Here's a Challenge! Can You Beat This Record?](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-heres-a-challenge-can-you-beat-this-record-1939/) [Hold Your Victory Bonds and War Savings Certificates (Use Only in Case of Emergency) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-hold-your-victory-bonds-use-only-in-case-of-emergency-1939/) ## 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.