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title: We Will Help Win the War! Will You?
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/we-will-help-win-the-war-will-you-1917/
description: A landscape notice headed 'We will help win the war! Will you?' lists some forty named local hotel and restaurant proprietors who pledge to follow Food
section: Collection
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# We Will Help Win the War! Will You?

A landscape notice headed 'We will help win the war! Will you?' lists some forty named local hotel and restaurant proprietors who pledge to follow Food Administration rules: one wheatless meal each day, wheatless Mondays and Wednesdays, meatless Tuesdays, and war bread every day. A U.S. flag sits beside the pledge and a large blank 'NOTICE' box is left for local text. The tell of bandwagon is the column of named neighbours followed by a direct question to the reader.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
WE WILL HELP WIN THE WAR! WILL YOU?

WE THE UNDERSIGNED HOTEL, RESTAURANT AND BOARDING HOUSE PROPRIETORS of Hutchinson agree to observe at all times, the rules of the United States Food Administration, a copy of which is herewith attached, and in conformity with same to observe the following:

One wheatless meal each day
Monday & Wednesday wheatless days
Tuesday meatless days

A day means from midnight to midnight

We will serve war bread every day.  We ask the hearty co-operation of our patrons, in observing these and any other rules the Food Administration may wish.

NOTICE

Pete J. McGuire
L. M. Shive
S. J. Roberts
R. H. Hammond
Mrs. E. C. Corrigan
Dave Anderson
Geo. Liesers
Sadie E. Bright
Garland Craig
T. H. Ryan
B. F. Dunn
H. C. Totten
Ed. Poelels
Ellen V. Cabb
Fred Welch
Vern Sebree
Ed. Dawes

L. A. Smith
Poulos, Palace of Sweets, 1 & 2
Gene McInturff Wag[illegible]n
C. E. Lyman
Raust Lucraft
Frank Tuttle
Jones Lunch
Fred Johnson
J. W. France
J. M. Holaday
J. A. Aftonea
W. W. Shandt
Frank Harris
Larkin Hotel
Anderson Lunch No. 1 & 2
W. A. Bruce

Hutchinson Office Supply & Printing Co.  47035
```

Names are transcribed as printed, including spellings that look irregular (for example 'Poelels', 'Aftonea'). Letters lost to the scan edge are marked [illegible]. The large drop-cap 'W' begins the word 'WE'.

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