# Squeeze in one more, from a drawing by Dr. Seuss

Help win the war: Squeeze in one more is a 1941 poster for the Douglas Aircraft Company War Production Drive, drawn by Lee Morehouse from an original drawing by Dr. Seuss. It asks riders to "Squeeze in one more" and prints "Hi Ho! Hi Ho! It's off to work we go!" (NAID 514471).

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      Squeeze in one more, from a drawing by Dr. Seuss
      1941 Douglas poster, Lee Morehouse after a drawing by Dr. Seuss, NAID 514471. A carpool cartoon, not an anti-Japanese caricature.

## Techniques named on the archive record

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      Date1941Made byDouglas Aircraft Company, War Production Drive (cartoon by Lee Morehouse, from an original drawing by Dr. Seuss)MediumPosterCountryUnited StatesRegimeRoosevelt AdministrationNARANAID 514471; Record Group 44SourceIdentified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they areSourceU.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters , retrieved October 4, 2026SourcePublic domain (U.S. government work) Douglas Aircraft Company, War Production Drive. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-964 (NAID 514471).
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  Help win the war: Squeeze in one more is a 1941 poster for the Douglas Aircraft Company War Production Drive, drawn by Lee Morehouse from an original drawing by Dr. Seuss. It asks riders to "Squeeze in one more" and prints "Hi Ho! Hi Ho! It's off to work we go!" (NAID 514471).

## What the sheet said

The picture, in the archive's description, is a crowd of smiling workers of both sexes packed into one small red open car that is shedding parts. The band underneath is the instruction. The imprint credits the source drawing, and it misspells the name.

HI HO! HI HO! IT'S OFF TO WORK WE GO!

HELP WIN THE WAR

Squeeze in one more

FROM ORIGINAL DRAWING BY DR. SUESS

DOUGLAS WAR PRODUCTION DRIVE

Transcription in the FRAME record, including the imprint's spelling "SUESS." Signature read there as Lee Morehouse, Illustrated Parts Catalog. Full record at propagandaarchive.org. NAID 514471, RG 44, 44-PA-964.

## What it is not

This sheet does not depict Japanese people, the Japanese government, or Japanese Americans. It is a ride-sharing joke for a war plant. People who search for Dr. Seuss's Japanese cartoons are usually looking for the drawings he made for the New York newspaper PM. Those drawings are not objects in this snapshot, and this site does not paste them in from memory. The creator note is Dr. Seuss and the cartoons this record holds.

## The demand, such as it is

The demand is voluntary on its face: get in the car. There is no fine and no oath. The liberty point is the one the song skips. A plant poster can shame an empty seat without telling the worker who owns the car, what the shift pays, or whether the gasoline ration was his to spend. "Help win the war" borrows the country for a parking problem. That is ordinary. It is not the same act as a poster that names an enemy race. Douglas did that too, in 1942, on the Tokio Kid sheets. The difference should stay visible.

## Sources

- FRAME object record, Help win the war: Squeeze in one more, 1941. Douglas Aircraft Company, War Production Drive. Cartoon by Lee Morehouse, from an original drawing by Dr. Seuss. NAID 514471, Record Group 44, 44-PA-964. Rights as recorded: public domain (U.S. government work).

Canonical: https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/squeeze-in-one-more-douglas-war-production-drive-1941/