To speed our boys home! Hang this up in your kitchen
Kitchen checklist sheet headed 'To speed our boys home!' with a photograph of a woman beside a service flag. Under 'Score yourself and your family' it lists produce, conserve, share and play-square actions with tick boxes. The service flag links each chore to a soldier, and the self-scoring format sets a household standard to match.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- War Food Administration
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Economy and finance
- 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)
War Food Administration. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-226 (NAID 513668).
Text on the object
HANG THIS UP IN YOUR KITCHEN O TO SERVE AS A DAILY REMINDER TO SPEED OUR BOYS HOME! Help shorten the war—save American lives—with a precious fighting weapon—FOOD Score yourself and your family. Do you do these things to the best of your abilities and opportunities? PRODUCE as much food as you possibly can? On the farm? In the Victory Garden? CONSERVE your food? By wasting nothing—cleaning the plate? By preserving food in your home? By substituting plentiful for scarce foods? By serving the right foods for strength and health? SHARE your food? By sharing it willingly with our fighting men and fighting Allies? By accepting rationing cheerfully? By buying no more rationed food than you really need? PLAY SQUARE with food? By always turning in your stamps when you buy rationed foods? By paying no more than top legal prices? FOOD IS THE MIGHTIEST WEAPON OF THEM ALL [emblem:] PRODUCE AND CONSERVE / SHARE AND PLAY SQUARE / FOOD FIGHTS for freedom [imprint:] WAR FOOD ADMINISTRATION [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1943
