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title: Your Sugar Ration Is 2 lbs. per Month
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/your-sugar-ration-is-2-lbs-per-month-1918/
description: A shop card shows four sacks of sugar in descending size, labelled with the monthly ration in America (2 lbs.), England, France (1 lb.
section: Collection
---

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[![Your Sugar Ration Is 2 lbs. per Month, 1918 US poster: A shop card shows four sacks of sugar in descending size, labelled](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/your-sugar-ration-is-2-lbs-per-month-1918.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/your-sugar-ration-is-2-lbs-per-month-1918.jpg)

# Your Sugar Ration Is 2 lbs. per Month

A shop card shows four sacks of sugar in descending size, labelled with the monthly ration in America (2 lbs.), England, France (1 lb. 1 oz.) and Italy (11 oz.), under the heading 'Your Sugar Ration is 2 lbs. per month'. The comparison with the allied rations supplies the reason to comply; the tell is the selection of a single contrast, voluntary against compulsory rationing, as the justification.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

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

```
THIS STORE IS PLEDGED TO CONFORM TO THE
SUGAR REGULATIONS OF THE U.S. FOOD ADMINISTRATION
Your Sugar Ration
is 2 lbs. per month
SUGAR 2 lbs.
SUGAR 1 lb. 1 oz.
SUGAR 11 oz.
AMERICA'S VOLUNTARY RATION
ENGLAND'S COMPULSORY RATION
FRANCE'S COMPULSORY RATION
ITALY'S COMPULSORY RATION
We must confine our consumption of Sugar
to not more than 2 lbs. per person per month
in order to provide a restricted ration
to England, France and Italy.
```

Small publisher's imprint at lower right is [illegible].

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