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title: Help Us Save the Grain and Win the War! Pitch Evenly, Heads First
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/help-us-save-the-grain-pitch-evenly-heads-first-1918/
description: A typographic card tells grain-stack pitchers to 'Pitch evenly, heads first' to save grain and win the war, over the Food Administration's shield-and-wheat
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---

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[![Help Us Save the Grain and Win the War! Pitch Evenly, Heads First, 1918 US poster: A typographic card tells grain-stack](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/help-us-save-the-grain-pitch-evenly-heads-first-1918.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/help-us-save-the-grain-pitch-evenly-heads-first-1918.jpg)

# Help Us Save the Grain and Win the War! Pitch Evenly, Heads First

A typographic card tells grain-stack pitchers to 'Pitch evenly, heads first' to save grain and win the war, over the Food Administration's shield-and-wheat seal. A purple stamp names W. D. Towe, Crawford County Food Administrator, Cuba, Mo. It joins a practical threshing instruction to a war-winning claim.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Help Us Save the Grain
and Win the War!
PITCH EVENLY—HEADS FIRST
UNITED STATES FOOD ADMINISTRATION
PLEASE FRAME AND FASTEN THIS WHERE PITCHERS WILL SEE IT CONSTANTLY WHILE WORKING
W. D. TOWE,
Crawford County Food Administrator
CUBA, MO.
```

The last three lines are a purple rubber stamp.

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