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title: '"I Solemnly Swear That I Won''t Eat No More Ice Cream" (An Heroic Sacrifice)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/i-solemnly-swear-an-heroic-sacrifice-1918/
description: A pen-and-ink cartoon shows a boy holding up his hand in a pledge, his cap in the other hand, with a small dog saying 'Me too!'.
section: Collection
---

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[!["I Solemnly Swear That I Won't Eat No More Ice Cream", 1918 US poster: A pen-and-ink cartoon shows a boy holding up his hand](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/i-solemnly-swear-an-heroic-sacrifice-1918.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/i-solemnly-swear-an-heroic-sacrifice-1918.jpg)

# "I Solemnly Swear That I Won't Eat No More Ice Cream" (An Heroic Sacrifice)

A pen-and-ink cartoon shows a boy holding up his hand in a pledge, his cap in the other hand, with a small dog saying 'Me too!', in front of a shop advertising ice-cream cones, sugar cookies and candy. The child's misspelled oath to give up sweets made with sugar presents sugar saving as a pledge anyone, even a child, can keep.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/)

## Text on the object

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

```
"I solomonly sware that I wont eat no more ice cream what's maid with suger nor no more candy what's maid with suger. Honest an troo-cross my hart. AMEN!"
5 CENT
CONES
FRESH BAKED
SUGAR COOKIES
CANDY
ME TOO!
AN HEROIC SACRIFICE.
ZIM '18
U. S. Food Administration
```

The spellings are the cartoon's own. NARA's title standardises them ('solemnly', 'won't', 'what's made', 'sugar'). The signature reads 'ZIM' with '18' and is partly stylised.

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