Improvement of the Highlanders' Social Life as a Priority Project of the Quang Duc Province Authorities, 1966 US poster

Improvement of the Highlanders' Social Life as a Priority Project of the Quang Duc Province Authorities

A horizontal photo-sheet (code SP-1193) with a Vietnamese headline and a parallel headline and body text in a Central Highlands language reports that the Quang Duc province authorities give Highland villagers livestock, seed and agricultural training. Photographs show a pig being handed over at a course ceremony, trainees queuing for supplies, and officials planting a crop. Banners in the pictures give dates in March and April 1966, and the claim of a 'self-sufficient family economy' is made without figures.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Date
1966
Period
Cold War
Made by
Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing section, for the South Vietnamese Government
Region
North America
Medium
Poster
Issuer type
State
Regime
Johnson Administration
Leader
Lyndon B. Johnson
Audience
Domestic public
Purpose
Persuade or win support
Themes
Home front, Economy and finance
Event
Vietnam War
Source
Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
Rights
NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing section, for the South Vietnamese Government. National Archives and Records Administration, 306-VP-7-1193.

Text on the object

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

CẢI TIẾN XÃ HỘI ĐỒNG BÀO THƯỢNG: CÔNG TÁC ƯU TIÊN CỦA CHÍNH QUYỀN TỈNH QUẢNG-ĐỨC.
[Highlands-language text, not transcribed]

Giúp đồng bào Thượng phương tiện gia tăng canh nuôi, canh tác để sớm đạt được một nền kinh tế gia đình tự túc là công tác được chính quyền tỉnh Quảng-Đức lưu tâm nhất. Muốn cho kết quả được bảo đảm để tạo sự tin tưởng chắc chắn trong nhân dân địa phương, việc làm phải thành công mỹ mãn. Ty Nông Vụ Quảng-Đức tốn công phu nghiên cứu, chọn lựa các loại giống tốt, thích hợp với đất đai, khí hậu trong vùng để trao tặng đồng bào.
[Highlands-language text, not transcribed]

Khoá 1 vừa mãn, thì khoá II đã kế tiếp được khai giảng và những học viên đều là những người sẽ trực tiếp phụ trách việc chăn nuôi và trồng cây của mỗi gia đình.
[Highlands-language text, not transcribed]

Ngoài phần lý thuyết, các học viên còn được thực tập ngay những điều đã học hỏi trong lớp.
[Highlands-language text, not transcribed]

Mản khoá các học viên còn được cấp phát các loại giống tốt (heo, gà, vịt, lúa, bắp, khoai lang, khoai mì, v.v...) để gia tăng sản xuất đồng thời gây giống để phát triển chăn nuôi, canh tác tại địa phương.
[Highlands-language text, not transcribed]

[banners in photographs:] LỄ BẾ-GIẢNG & PHÁT PHẦN THƯỞNG — KHÓA I 66 CANH-MỤC-THƯỢNG — 18-3-1966 [partly illegible]; KHÓA II 66 CANH-MỤC-THƯỢNG — 18-4 [partly illegible]

SP-1193

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

IMPROVEMENT OF THE HIGHLANDERS' SOCIAL LIFE: A PRIORITY TASK OF THE QUANG-DUC PROVINCE AUTHORITIES.
[Highlands-language text, not transcribed]

Helping the Highland compatriots with the means to increase livestock raising and farming, so as soon as possible to reach a self-sufficient family economy, is the task to which the Quang-Duc provincial authorities pay the most attention. So that the results are assured and build firm confidence among the local people, the work must succeed fully. The Quang-Duc Agriculture Service has gone to great trouble to study and select good varieties suited to the land and climate of the region to give to the compatriots.
[Highlands-language text, not transcribed]

Course I has just ended, and Course II has already opened in succession; the trainees are all people who will directly take charge of the livestock raising and planting of each family.
[Highlands-language text, not transcribed]

Besides theory, the trainees also immediately put into practice what they learned in class.
[Highlands-language text, not transcribed]

At the end of the course the trainees are also issued good breeds (pigs, chickens, ducks, rice, maize, sweet potatoes, cassava, etc.) to increase production and at the same time to breed stock to develop livestock raising and farming locally.
[Highlands-language text, not transcribed]

[banners in photographs:] CEREMONY OF CLOSING OF CLASSES & PRIZE-GIVING — COURSE I 66 FARMING-LIVESTOCK-HIGHLANDS — 18-3-1966 [partly illegible]; COURSE II 66 FARMING-LIVESTOCK-HIGHLANDS — 18-4 [partly illegible]

SP-1193

Parallel Highlands-language paragraphs, headline and captions (Latin script) are not transcribed or translated; the language is not named on the sheet. 'Mản khoá' (printed so) is kept as it appears and read as 'mãn khoá' (end of the course) in the translation.