Our Flags: Beat Germany, Support Every Flag That Opposes Prussianism

The American flag leads a massed group of Allied flags above the silhouettes of soldiers with rifles, over a panel urging viewers to beat Germany, eat less of the food fighters need, deny themselves something and waste nothing. The poster links household food saving to the Allied cause by way of its flags, and sets the enemy as 'Prussianism' rather than the German people.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Bandwagon Transfer Glittering generalities

Date: 1918
Period: First World War
Made by: U.S. Food Administration
Region: North America
Country: United States
Medium: Poster
Issuer type: State
Regime: Wilson Administration
Leader: Woodrow Wilson
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Mobilize or secure compliance
Themes: Home front, War and the military
Event: World War I
Regime: Wilson administration
Leader: Woodrow Wilson
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 4 (U.S. Food Administration), World War I Posters (NAID 512439), retrieved October 3, 2026
Rights: NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
U.S. Food Administration. National Archives and Records Administration, 4-P-247.

Text on the object

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

Our Flags

BEAT GERMANY
Support EVERY FLAG
that opposes Prussianism
Eat less of the food Fighters need
DENY yourself something
WASTE NOTHING

UNITED STATES
FOOD
ADMINISTRATION

ADOLPH TREIDLER

OB.
EDWARDS & DEUTSCH LITHO. CO. CHICAGO

'OB.' (bottom left) is a small printed code. The imprint spelling 'DEUTSCH' is as best read from the scan.