--- title: 'Your Bit Saves a Life: 2 1/2 Million Women and Children Now Starving to Death' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/your-bit-saves-a-life-armenian-syrian-relief-1917/ description: A hooded woman holds a young child, both with worried faces, under the claim that two and a half million women and children are starving to death. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Your Bit Saves a Life: 2 1/2 Million Women and Children Now Starving [![Your Bit Saves a Life: 2 1/2 Million Women and Children Now Starving to Death, 1917 US poster: A hooded woman holds a young](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/your-bit-saves-a-life-armenian-syrian-relief-1917.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/your-bit-saves-a-life-armenian-syrian-relief-1917.jpg) # Your Bit Saves a Life: 2 1/2 Million Women and Children Now Starving to Death A hooded woman holds a young child, both with worried faces, under the claim that two and a half million women and children are starving to death. The closing line, 'You can't let us starve,' speaks in the victims' voice, and a Pittsburgh campaign address is printed at the foot. The tell is the close portrait paired with a large, unsourced casualty figure and a direct demand on the viewer. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` YOUR BIT SAVES A LIFE 2½ Million Women and Children Now Starving to Death You Can't Let Us Starve Armenian and Syrian Relief Campaign 508 Wm. Penn Place (Union Arcade) PITTSBURGH, PA. ``` [← You Go Get 'Em Over Here, While He'll Go Get 'Em Over There](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/you-go-get-em-over-here-liberty-bonds-1917/) [Заём свободы. Война до победы (Liberty Loan. War until Victory) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/zaem-svobody-voina-do-pobedy-1917/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Miniature of Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont, Les Passages d'outremer (BnF Fr. 5594, fol. 19r)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/passages-doutremer-council-of-clermont-colombe-1474/) (France · 1474 · Testimonial, Fear appeal). Content note: Medieval religious imagery and a French text describing alleged killings and captivity of eastern Christians, as used to argue for the First Crusade; the text is shown as written. - [Anacoana fut pendue sans raison (engraving in Le miroir de la cruelle et horrible tyrannie espagnole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/anacoana-hanged-miroir-tyrannie-espagnole-1620/) (Dutch Republic · 1620 · Fear appeal, Name-calling). Content note: Engraving of a hanged, bare-breasted Taino woman, burning huts and people being killed by Spanish soldiers. - [Der Warner (broadsheet lampoon on the Jesuits after Breitenfeld and Rain)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/der-warner-anti-jesuit-broadsheet-1632/) (Holy Roman Empire · 1632 · Scapegoating, Fear appeal) - [Sans-Culottes, feeding Europe with the Bread of Liberty (James Gillray)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sans-culottes-bread-of-liberty-gillray-1793/) (Kingdom of Great Britain · Jan 12, 1793 · Fear appeal, Name-calling) - [Proclamation de Sonthonax en créole, Cap-Français (Proclamation of Commissioner Sonthonax in Creole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sonthonax-proclamation-creole-1793/) (France · Aug 29, 1793 · Fear appeal, Scapegoating). Content note: Colonial-era proclamation on slavery and emancipation in Saint-Domingue; speaks of slaves, whips and 'Nègues' in period terms. - [Gazette of the United States, "The Jeffersoniad" no. VIII, 14 August 1800](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gazette-us-jeffersoniad-1800/) (United States · Aug 14, 1800 · Name-calling, Fear appeal) - [Tyrants Prostrate, Liberty Triumphant (pro-Polk cartoon on Dorr), 1844](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tyrants-prostrate-liberty-triumphant-polk-1844/) (United States · 1844 · Name-calling, Fear appeal). Content note: Speech balloons contain anti-Catholic and nativist wording ('the ruins of Popery') in the mouths of the Whig figures, written by a Democratic cartoonist and shown unaltered. - [Brolej Žemajčiaj! (Brothers Samogitians!): hand-painted broken-cross poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/brolej-zemajciaj-broken-cross-1862/) (Russian Empire · 1862 · Fear appeal, Transfer)