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
- Date
- 1945
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Navy (artist White)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Own forces
- Purpose
- Fundraise
- Themes
- Economy and finance, War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 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. Navy. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1131 (NAID 514658).
Text on the object
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
