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title: 'World Relief Week Meetings, December 1 to 7: Now Save to Avert Anarchy Over There'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/world-relief-week-hunger-breeds-madness-1918/
description: A text-only notice announces World Relief Week meetings on December 1 to 7 and links wartime saving to preventing 'anarchy over there'.
section: Collection
---

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# World Relief Week Meetings, December 1 to 7: Now Save to Avert Anarchy Over There

A text-only notice announces World Relief Week meetings on December 1 to 7 and links wartime saving to preventing 'anarchy over there', quoting President Wilson: 'Hunger breeds madness.' The tell is the pairing of an alarm about disorder abroad with the President's name as authority.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/)

## Text on the object

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

```
WORLD RELIEF WEEK
MEETINGS
DECEMBER 1 to 7

You Saved to Win the War

Now Save to Avert Anarchy
Over There

"Hunger Breeds Madness"
PRESIDENT WILSON

Hear story of the menace to the World
and the Remedy at
WORLD RELIEF WEEK MEETINGS

[seal: United States Food Administration]

United States Food Administration
```

Line breaks follow the sheet.

[← Workers: Lend Your Strength to the Red Triangle (Y.M.C.A.)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/workers-lend-your-strength-ymca-1918/) [You Are Lucky! The "War" Bread That You Get Would Seem Like Cake to the Children of Europe →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/you-are-lucky-the-war-bread-that-you-get-1918/)

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