“Help Us Keep Prices Down”

[baron-waste.livejournal.com]

“Of course, it’s hard to give up the luxuries of life … and even harder to give up some of the necessities. But this is War! And when you think of the sacrifices our fighting men are making… many of them giving up their lives for us … no sacrifice we can make should be too great…”



(“War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view ‘realistically’; that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent - war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.” - Susan Sontag, ‘AIDS and Its Metaphors’)



Image courtesy Modern Mechanix

Comments

[versailles-rose.livejournal.com]

Propaganda. Don't ya love where it says to start a savings account? Same crap as the government is feeding us today. =P

[angstzeit.livejournal.com]

Actually, today the last thing they want you to do is save money.

[nosyparker.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Compare this message to today's practice of handing out 'economic stimulus' checks. If only more people today were 'fed' this 'crap'.

[margokennedy.livejournal.com]

this is so evil lol D:

[moonstone-fae.livejournal.com]

Much of this message needs to be heeded today.

[misstia]

true, but most americans want what they see right then and there! instant gratification no matter the interest rate is king here...

[death-worm.livejournal.com]

Wait - is that a typo at the bottom? I swear it says "Approved by the Office of Wor Information" instead of "War". Must have been SABOTAGE!

[amiga500.livejournal.com]

I think it does say that.

Also 'But this is War!' (or Wor) can be used to justify anything, apparently. Will have to remember that.

[baron-waste.livejournal.com]

Dang, you're sharp as a tack!

“Approved by the Office af Wor Information,” forsooth.

Well, see, the typesetters and proofreaders had all been drofted…

[murcury.livejournal.com]

War causes vowel movements.

[dangerduckie21.livejournal.com]

Sounds good to me, especially "2. Don't try to profit from the war"

Wow, and to think the propagandists used to have some common sense in this country...