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title: It's smart to salt away some of your pay through the Navy Bond Allotment Plan
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/its-smart-to-salt-away-your-pay-navy-1945/
description: 'Navy savings poster: a stylised sailor''s face in white cap beside the words ''It''s smart to - salt away some of your pay''.'
section: Collection
---

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[![It's smart to salt away some of your pay through the Navy Bond Allotment Plan, 1945 US poster: Navy savings poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/its-smart-to-salt-away-your-pay-navy-1945.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/its-smart-to-salt-away-your-pay-navy-1945.jpg)

# It's smart to salt away some of your pay through the Navy Bond Allotment Plan

Navy savings poster: a stylised sailor's face in white cap beside the words 'It's smart to - salt away some of your pay', with 'through the Navy Bond Allotment Plan' on a dark band. The sailor slang 'salt away' and the winking face address enlisted men as one of their own; the technique is faint and rests on a prudence appeal.

## 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

```
IT'S SMART TO-
SALT
AWAY
SOME OF
YOUR
PAY
THROUGH THE
NAVY BOND ALLOTMENT PLAN
[signature: White '45]
[imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1945—O—660126]
Navexos P - 161
```

[← Items to Be Checked: Military Passes and Furloughs](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/items-to-be-checked-military-passes-furloughs-1945/) ['American Officers and Men' (Japanese leaflet on the death of President Roosevelt, Okinawa) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japanese-leaflet-roosevelt-death-okinawa-1945/)

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