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 Testimonial

Date: 1918
Period: First World War
Made by: U.S. Food Administration
Region: North America
Country: United States
Medium: Poster
Issuer type: State
Regime: Wilson Administration
Leader: Woodrow Wilson
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Mobilize or secure compliance
Themes: Home front, Economy and finance, War and the military
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
U.S. Food Administration. National Archives and Records Administration, 4-P-95.

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

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