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title: New Year Suggestion
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/new-year-suggestion-army-1944/
description: 'Army suggestion-program poster: a cartoon suggestion box with a face, legs and a string tied round its raised finger points to a flip calendar page reading'
section: Collection
---

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[![New Year Suggestion, 1944 US poster: Army suggestion-program poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/new-year-suggestion-army-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/new-year-suggestion-army-1944.jpg)

# New Year Suggestion

Army suggestion-program poster: a cartoon suggestion box with a face, legs and a string tied round its raised finger points to a flip calendar page reading January 1945 and the line 'At least one good suggestion this year', set on a large red downward arrow. The technique is faint; the friendly cartoon figure carries a plain, informal request.

## 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

```
NEW YEAR
SUGGESTION
JANUARY
1945
1
AT
LEAST
ONE
GOOD
SUGGESTION
THIS
YEAR
[signature: C. K. Carlson (uncertain)]
U. S. ARMY
WD Suggestion Poster No. 15.
DISTRIBUTION: AAF (5); AGF (5); ASF (5);
ea fifty (50) civilian employees of the ASF (1).
[imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944—O—620339
```

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