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title: The Winnah! You Can Put Yourself Farther Ahead in the Game (War Savings Certificates)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-the-winnah-war-savings-certificates-1939/
description: A smiling airman in uniform holds up a War Savings certificate while three servicemen and a civilian kneel over a dice game on the floor.
section: Collection
---

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[![The Winnah! You Can Put Yourself Farther Ahead in the Game, 1939 Canada poster: A smiling airman in uniform holds up a War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-the-winnah-war-savings-certificates-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-the-winnah-war-savings-certificates-1939.jpg)

# The Winnah! You Can Put Yourself Farther Ahead in the Game (War Savings Certificates)

A smiling airman in uniform holds up a War Savings certificate while three servicemen and a civilian kneel over a dice game on the floor, under 'The Winnah!'. The tell (plain-folks) is the barracks dice-game setting and slang spelling, which frame saving as the ordinary serviceman's smarter bet; the text promises a post-war payoff.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

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

```
THE WINNAH!
YOU CAN PUT YOURSELF FARTHER
AHEAD IN THE GAME IF YOU
LOOK TO THE FUTURE--
THE PAY-OFF COMES AFTER THE WAR
A POST-WAR SAVINGS BACKLOG IS A
'NATURAL' EVERY TIME. PUT YOUR MONEY ON
War Savings Certificates
[signature:] Ricky RCAF
```

[← The Nerve Centre of War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-the-nerve-centre-of-war-1939/) [They Also Serve... Who Only Work and Save! →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-they-also-serve-who-only-work-and-save-1939/)

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