--- title: 4 Questions to Men Who Have Not Enlisted url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-4-questions-to-men-who-have-not-enlisted-1914/ description: Four numbered questions on a yellow sheet with a red and black border ask men aged 19 to 38 whether they are satisfied. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. 4 Questions to Men Who Have Not Enlisted [![4 Questions to Men Who Have Not Enlisted, 1914 UK poster: Four numbered questions on a yellow sheet with a red and black](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-4-questions-to-men-who-have-not-enlisted-1914.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-4-questions-to-men-who-have-not-enlisted-1914.jpg) # 4 Questions to Men Who Have Not Enlisted Four numbered questions on a yellow sheet with a red and black border ask men aged 19 to 38 whether they are satisfied, whether they feel happy seeing others in the King's uniform, and what they will answer to later questions about service, closing 'Enlist to-day'. The tell is the appeal to other men already in uniform and to future social judgment as the reason to enlist. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` 4 QUESTIONS to men who have not enlisted 1. IF you are physically fit and between 19 and 38 years of age, are you really satisfied with what you are doing to-day ? 2. Do you feel happy as you walk along the streets and see other men wearing the King's uniform ? 3. What will you say in years to come when people ask you "Where did you serve in the great War" ? 4. What will you answer when your children grow up and say, "Father, why weren't you a soldier, too" ? ENLIST TO-DAY. [imprint:] PUBLISHED BY THE PARLIAMENTARY RECRUITING COMMITTEE LONDON - POSTER NO. 62. PRINTED BY BEMROSE & SONS LTD. DERBY AND LONDON. ``` [← 6e régiment d'infanterie battle-honour label (Éditions Delandre, about 1914-1917)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sixth-regiment-campaign-cinderella/) [Unser Kaiser an sein Volk (Our Emperor to His People) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/unser-kaiser-an-sein-volk-1914/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Consult of the doctors on the grave illness of the Grand Sultan (Consult vande medicijnen inde swaere siekte vanden grooten Sultaen)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/consult-of-the-doctors-sick-sultan-antwerp-1683/) (Spanish Netherlands · 1683 · Transfer, Bandwagon) - ["Jackson ticket" with Hickory tree motto, Baltimore (1828)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jackson-ticket-hickory-tree-1828/) (United States · 1828 · Bandwagon, Transfer) - [Democratic tickets, "Go it, ye Cripples!" and "Stop Van!!!" (Ohio electors, Van Buren and Johnson), 1836](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/democratic-ticket-stop-van-van-buren-1836/) (United States · 1836 · Name-calling, Bandwagon) - [Democratic ticket, "Going the whole hog" (Ohio electors for Van Buren and Johnson), 1836](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/democratic-ticket-whole-hog-van-buren-1836/) (United States · 1836 · Bandwagon) - ["Political race course - Union Track - fall races 1836"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/political-race-course-union-track-harrison-1836/) (United States · 1836 · Bandwagon, Name-calling). Content note: Partisan caricature of named politicians that uses the epithet 'Black Dan' for Daniel Webster and regional stereotypes in the speech balloons. - ["Grand match between the Kinderhook poney and the Ohio ploughman", April 1836](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/grand-match-kinderhook-poney-ohio-ploughman-harrison-1836/) (United States · Apr 1836 · Transfer, Bandwagon) - ['The People's Line -- Take care of the Locomotive', Whig woodcut, 1840](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/peoples-line-take-care-of-the-locomotive-1840/) (United States · 1840 · Bandwagon) - ['The Fox Chace', Whig cartoon of Van Buren hunted by cider-barrel hounds, 1840](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/the-fox-chace-van-buren-harrison-childs-1840/) (United States · 1840 · Name-calling, Bandwagon)