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title: Tomorrow May Be Too Late!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tomorrow-may-be-too-late-kirby-army-1942/
description: A ghostly, hat-wearing caricature of the Japanese leader tells a miner 'Take it more easy, mister miner, plenty time tomorrow', and the miner answers…
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Caricature of the Japanese leader, named 'Togo', in a US Army cartoon. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Tomorrow May Be Too Late!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/tomorrow-may-be-too-late-kirby-army-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/tomorrow-may-be-too-late-kirby-army-1942.jpg)

# Tomorrow May Be Too Late!

A ghostly, hat-wearing caricature of the Japanese leader tells a miner 'Take it more easy, mister miner, plenty time tomorrow', and the miner answers that Uncle Sam needs more ore today 'to lick the pants off you Togo'. The enemy is staged as the voice of delay, and the single remedy offered is to dig more now.

## Text on the object

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

```
Tomorrow may be TOO LATE!

TAKE IT MORE EASY, MISTER MINER-- PLENTY TIME TOMORROW!

OH YEAH? UNCLE SAM NEEDS MORE ORE TODAY TO LICK THE PANTS OFF YOU TOGO!

U.S. ARMY

ROLLIN KIRBY
```

Imprint at foot reads 'U.S. Government Printing Office: 1942 O-' followed by a number (not reliably legible). A handwritten accession mark appears at top right.

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