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title: 'Little Americans, Do Your Bit: Eat Oatmeal, Corn Meal Mush, Hominy'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/little-americans-do-your-bit-eat-oatmeal-1918/
description: A smiling fair-haired child in white salutes inside a blue roundel, a bowl of cereal with a spoon at upper left.
section: Collection
---

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[![Little Americans, Do Your Bit: Eat Oatmeal, Corn Meal Mush, Hominy, 1918 US poster: A smiling fair-haired child in white](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/little-americans-do-your-bit-eat-oatmeal-1918.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/little-americans-do-your-bit-eat-oatmeal-1918.jpg)

# Little Americans, Do Your Bit: Eat Oatmeal, Corn Meal Mush, Hominy

A smiling fair-haired child in white salutes inside a blue roundel, a bowl of cereal with a spoon at upper left, over the headline 'Little Americans Do your bit'. The text lists corn cereals and rice with milk and asks children to save wheat for soldiers and to leave nothing on the plate. The tell is transfer: the military salute and the phrase 'do your bit' lend the soldier's duty to a bowl of porridge.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Little
AMERICANS
Do your bit

Eat Oatmeal-Corn meal mush-
Hominy - other corn cereals -
and Rice with milk.
Save the wheat for our soldiers.

Leave nothing on your plate

UNITED STATES FOOD ADMINISTRATION
```

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