Don't be discouraged. Keep trying! Make a suggestion today
Suggestion-scheme poster: a baseball batter in red and white uniform swings against a grey background, framed by 'if your first suggestions aren't hits' and 'Don't be discouraged', over a red 'Keep Trying!' panel. The batting image stands in for suggestions that miss before one connects; the technique is faint, a transfer from sport.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Army Service Forces (ASF Suggestion Poster No. 1)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Mixed
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Labor
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Army Service Forces. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-654 (NAID 514132).
Text on the object
if your first suggestions aren't hits DON'T BE DISCOURAGED Keep Trying! make a suggestion today [imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944-O-614873 ASF Suggestion Poster No. 1
