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title: Ideas will help beat the promise - let's have yours!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ideas-will-help-beat-the-promise-1941/
description: 'Suggestion-program poster: a worker in overalls scratches his head beside a giant pale head with its top open to show gears.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Ideas will help beat the promise - let's have yours!, 1941 US poster: Suggestion-program poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/ideas-will-help-beat-the-promise-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/ideas-will-help-beat-the-promise-1941.jpg)

# Ideas will help beat the promise - let's have yours!

Suggestion-program poster: a worker in overalls scratches his head beside a giant pale head with its top open to show gears, with question marks reading 'Idea?' around him. The technique is plain-folks, an ordinary worker invited to contribute. Slogan: 'Ideas will help beat the promise'.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
IDEA?
IDEA?
IDEA?
IDEA?
IDEA?
IDEAS WILL HELP
BEAT THE PROMISE
LET'S HAVE YOURS !
[imprint:] FORM IS 4591
[imprint:] LITHO IN U.S.A.
```

[← I was careless! 'it ALL depends on ME'](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/i-was-careless-it-all-depends-on-me-1941/) [If each of us figured our "little bit" didn't count, we'd all be Jap or Nazi prisoners right now! →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/if-each-of-us-figured-our-little-bit-didnt-count-1941/)

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