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title: Help me win my victory!! Join the March of Dimes!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/owi-alston-help-me-win-my-victory-march-of-dimes-1943/
description: A frightened Black girl with arms held out is grasped at the ankle by a huge hooded skeletal figure labelled 'Infantile Paralysis'.
section: Collection
---

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[![Help me win my victory!! Join the March of Dimes!, 1943 US cartoon: A frightened Black girl with arms held out is grasped](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/owi-alston-help-me-win-my-victory-march-of-dimes-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/owi-alston-help-me-win-my-victory-march-of-dimes-1943.jpg)

# Help me win my victory!! Join the March of Dimes!

A frightened Black girl with arms held out is grasped at the ankle by a huge hooded skeletal figure labelled 'Infantile Paralysis'. The tell is fear-appeal paired with a donation request: the personified disease and the child's plea 'my victory' connect a health fundraising drive to the wartime language of victory.

## Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

[Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Text on the object

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

```
INFANTILE
PARALYSIS

alston
for OWI

"HELP ME WIN MY VICTORY!!~JOIN THE MARCH OF DIMES!"
```

[← "He'll give thanks every day if you back him up 100%!" \[Incentive to buy war bonds\] (undated, c. 1942-1945, OWI)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/owi-alston-hell-give-thanks-every-day-war-bonds-1943/) ["He's willing, he's capable, and we need him - use him!!" →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/owi-alston-hes-willing-capable-need-him-1943/)

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