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title: '"Equal protection for all"'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-owi-alston-equal-protection-for-all-1943/
description: A smiling woman raises a ration book marked 'Ration book two' and carries a grocery bag in front of an enlarged official table of point values for meat.
section: Collection
---

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# "Equal protection for all"

A smiling woman raises a ration book marked 'Ration book two' and carries a grocery bag in front of an enlarged official table of point values for meat, fats and fish. The tell is a broad civic ideal ('equal protection for all') attached to a rationing scheme, urging compliance with the system.

## Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
OFFICIAL TABLE OF CONSUMER POINT VALUES FOR MEAT, FATS, FISH, AN[D ...]
No. 1 -- Effective March 29, 1943

RATION BOOK TWO

Alston
for OWI

"EQUAL PROTECTION FOR ALL"

(The small print of the point table is not transcribed.)
```

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