Don't wreck it! It's your latrine
Army conservation sheet for posting in latrines: four cartoon figures are shown clogging a bowl, breaking a faucet, breaking a mirror and kicking a valve, each with a short 'don't' label. The technique is faint here; the sheet relies on humorous cartoon plain-folks figures and the line 'it's your latrine' to appeal to servicemen's ownership of shared facilities.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1945
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army, Army Conservation Program
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Own forces
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- 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)
U.S. Army. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-702 (NAID 514183).
Text on the object
don't wreck it! DON'T CLOG THE BOWL DON'T BREAK THE FAUCET DON'T BREAK THE MIRROR DON'T KICK THE VALVE it's your latrine DISTRIBUTION: AAF (5); AGF (5); ASF (2); Sv C (Conservation Off) (2); C (5); S (5); (No overseas distribution). POST IN ALL LATRINES [imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1945-O-633222 Army Conservation Project No. 141-E-32 U.S. ARMY SAVE CONSERVATION PROGRAM
