How you can help save a life
Text-only sheet in white on brown: a six-point list of food-saving actions (do not waste food, eat less wheat, re-use cooking fat and so on), closing with '500 million people are hungry, they look to you for help.' The technique is faint; the sheet rests on one stated figure without a source or breakdown.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1946
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. government (issuer not named on the sheet)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Economy and finance
- Event
- World War II
- 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. government. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1026 (NAID 514552).
Text on the object
HOW YOU CAN HELP SAVE A LIFE . 1. Don't waste food 2. Eat less wheat products 3. Eat potatoes and other plentiful foods 4. Preserve food at home 5. Re-use cooking fat 6. Salvage inedible fat 500 MILLION PEOPLE ARE HUNGRY THEY LOOK TO YOU FOR HELP [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1946-O-701760
