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title: 'Cotton Goes to War: Your Army Needs High Grade Cotton'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cotton-goes-to-war-1941/
description: 'Two-page comic-strip sheet: on the left, panels of a rifleman, an aircraft, jungle and ski troops each tied to high-grade cotton; on the right.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Cotton Goes to War: Your Army Needs High Grade Cotton, 1941 US poster: Two-page comic-strip sheet](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/cotton-goes-to-war-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/cotton-goes-to-war-1941.jpg)

# Cotton Goes to War: Your Army Needs High Grade Cotton

Two-page comic-strip sheet: on the left, panels of a rifleman, an aircraft, jungle and ski troops each tied to high-grade cotton; on the right, a soldier and a cotton picker talk in speech balloons. The farmer addresses the soldier directly, a plain-folks voice, while the front-line scenes lend the war's weight to careful picking.

## 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

```
Soldier's uniforms must be tough-
that calls for high-grade cotton
Rudders and
other control surfaces of
planes are high-grade
cotton fabric
Jungle fighters wear canvas boots,
sleep in canvas hammocks - made
of high-grade cotton
Ski troops
wear uniforms
of high-grade
cotton
GOSH! HIGH-GRADE
COTTON IS MIGHTY
IMPORTANT TO THE
WAR, ISN'T IT?
IT SURE IS.
HOW GOOD
IS YOUR
COTTON?
SOLDIER, YOU CAN
DEPEND ON MY
COTTON I'M PICKING
IT DRY ... NOT TOO
GREEN OR TOO SOON
AFTER RAIN OR DEW
.. AND I DON'T
LET IT STAY IN
THE FIELD UNTIL
IT GETS DIRTY
AND DISCOLORED.
I'M KEEPING
TRASH AND
LEAVES OUT
OF IT, TOO.
[signature: H E Chapman]
```

[← Constant care will get us there](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/constant-care-will-get-us-there-ordnance/) [Cross only at corners →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cross-only-at-corners-aaa-1941/)

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