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title: They Who Buy and Salt Away Will Have Real Cash a Later Day
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-they-who-buy-and-salt-away-1939/
description: Four cartoon heads of men, three in service caps and one a smiling civilian, frame the verse 'They who buy and salt away will have real cash a later day'.
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[![They Who Buy and Salt Away Will Have Real Cash a Later Day, 1939 Canada poster: Four cartoon heads of men, three in service](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-they-who-buy-and-salt-away-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-they-who-buy-and-salt-away-1939.jpg)

# They Who Buy and Salt Away Will Have Real Cash a Later Day

Four cartoon heads of men, three in service caps and one a smiling civilian, frame the verse 'They who buy and salt away will have real cash a later day'. The heads are a naval rating with an HMCS cap, a helmeted soldier with a cigarette, an air force man in a forage cap and a civilian in a hat, above a red band reading 'Buy and keep your Victory Bonds'. The tell is the mix of uniforms and a civilian face, which pairs the services' standing with an everyman buyer; no figures are given.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
They who buy
and salt away
will have real cash
a later day

Buy and
Keep your VICTORY
BONDS

[cap tally:] HMCS
```

[← They Who Buy and Put Away Will Have Real Cash a Later Day](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-they-who-buy-and-put-away-1939/) [Think - His Life is in Your Hands! →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-think-his-life-is-in-your-hands-1939/)

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