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title: Tuyen Duc and Dalat Help Rural People Build a New Life
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dalat-tuyen-duc-new-life-calendar-1966/
description: A portrait sheet under the South Vietnamese flag shows five photographs of local-government and cadre aid in Dalat-Tuyen-Duc (a sewing machine.
section: Collection
---

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[![Tuyen Duc and Dalat Help Rural People Build a New Life, 1966 US poster: A portrait sheet under the South Vietnamese flag](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/dalat-tuyen-duc-new-life-calendar-1966.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/dalat-tuyen-duc-new-life-calendar-1966.jpg)

# Tuyen Duc and Dalat Help Rural People Build a New Life

A portrait sheet under the South Vietnamese flag shows five photographs of local-government and cadre aid in Dalat-Tuyen-Duc (a sewing machine, rice and salt handed out, a doctor examining villagers, an electrification survey, a truckload of cadres) with Vietnamese captions and parallel captions in a highland language. A three-month calendar for April to June runs along the bottom. The tell is the calendar: the sheet is made to hang in a home, so the government's record of help sits where the household sees it daily.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
ĐÀLẠT - TUYÊN-ĐỨC
[flag of the Republic of Vietnam]
GIÚP ĐỒNG BÀO NÔNG THÔN XÂY DỰNG VÀ CẢI THIỆN ĐỜI SỐNG
[highland-language text, not transcribed]

SAU KHI MÃN KHÓA, CÁC CÁN BỘ NÔNG THÔN TRỞ VỀ THÔN ẤP HƯỚNG DẪN ĐỒNG BÀO THỰC HIỆN CÔNG TÁC CẢI THIỆN ĐỜI SỐNG.
[highland-language text, not transcribed]

MỘT THIẾU NỮ THƯỢNG SAU KHI TỐT NGHIỆP LỚP HUẤN LUYỆN CẢI TIẾN SINH HOẠT GIA ĐÌNH ĐANG VUI THÍCH XỬ DỤNG CHIẾC MÁY MAY DO CHÍNH QUYỀN CẤP PHÁT.
[highland-language text, not transcribed]

GẠO, MUỐI VÀ CÁC THỰC PHẨM CẦN THIẾT CHO ĐỜI SỐNG HÀNG NGÀY ĐÃ ĐƯỢC CHÍNH QUYỀN ĐỊA PHƯƠNG PHÂN PHÁT CHO ĐỒNG BÀO THƯỢNG TỴ NẠN CỘNG-SẢN TẠI ẤP SUỐI-THÔNG, QUẬN ĐỨC TRỌNG.
[highland-language text, not transcribed]

CÁC BÁC-SĨ CÔNG VÀ TƯ ĐẾN TẬN CÁC THÔN ẤP KHÁM BỊNH VÀ PHÁT THUỐC MIỄN PHÍ CHO ĐỒNG BÀO THƯỢNG TỴ NẠN CỘNG-SẢN.
[highland-language text, not transcribed]

KỸ-SƯ VESTA-ORR VÀ BAN QUẢN TRỊ HỢP TÁC XÃ ĐIỆN ĐANG NGHIÊN CỨU VIỆC THIẾT LẬP HỆ THỐNG TRỤ ĐIỆN TẠI XÃ HIỆP-THẠNH, QUẬN ĐỨC-TRỌNG.
[highland-language text, not transcribed]

LỊCH BA THÁNG
tháng tư | tháng năm | tháng sáu
CHỦ NHẬT, THỨ HAI, THỨ BA, THỨ TƯ, THỨ NĂM, THỨ SÁU, THỨ BẢY
[calendar grid of day numbers and lunar-day numbers, not transcribed]
SP1054
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
DALAT - TUYEN-DUC
[flag of the Republic of Vietnam]
HELP RURAL PEOPLE BUILD AND IMPROVE THEIR LIVES
[highland-language text, not transcribed]

After finishing their course, the rural cadres return to the hamlets to guide the people in carrying out work to improve their lives.
[highland-language text, not transcribed]

A highland girl, after graduating from a course on improving family living, is happily using a sewing machine issued by the government.
[highland-language text, not transcribed]

Rice, salt and foodstuffs needed for daily life have been distributed by the local government to highland people taking refuge from the Communists at Suoi-Thong hamlet, Duc Trong district.
[highland-language text, not transcribed]

Public and private doctors go all the way to the hamlets to examine the sick and hand out medicine free to highland people taking refuge from the Communists.
[highland-language text, not transcribed]

Engineer Vesta-Orr and the board of the electricity cooperative are studying the setting up of a system of power poles in Hiep-Thanh village, Duc-Trong district.
[highland-language text, not transcribed]

THREE-MONTH CALENDAR
April | May | June
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
[calendar grid of day numbers and lunar-day numbers, not transcribed]
SP1054
```

[← Cung chúc Tân Xuân (Happy New Spring) Tet greeting leaflet](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cung-chuc-tan-xuan-tet-greeting-leaflet-1966/) [Dalat and Tuyen Duc Implement the Rural Construction Program →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dalat-tuyen-duc-rural-construction-1966/)

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