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
- Date
- 1917
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- Undersigned hotel, restaurant and boarding house proprietors of Hutchinson (printed by Hutchinson Office Supply & Printing Co.), pledging to U.S. Food Administration rules
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Wilson Administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Economy and finance
- Event
- World War I
- Regime
- Wilson administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 4 (U.S. Food Administration), World War I Posters (NAID 512439), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Undersigned hotel, restaurant and boarding house proprietors of Hutchinson (printed by Hutchinson Office Supply & Printing Co.), pledging to U.S. Food Administration rules. National Archives and Records Administration, 4-P-245.
Text on the object
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'.
