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Loose Lips Sink Septic Systems

Poster No. 41, issued by the Office of Civic Digestion for the wartime security drive, warning that loose talk of contribution schedules aids the enemy.

A wartime security poster of two neighbors talking over a garden fence while a shadowed listener crouches at a storm drain below them, a cutaway household waste line running beneath the street toward a faltering municipal facility, captioned LOOSE LIPS SINK SEPTIC SYSTEMS.

Poster No. 41. Issued by the Office of Civic Digestion, circa 1943, for display in ward offices, factory canteens, and boarding-house halls during the wartime security drive, when open talk of household contribution schedules was held to assist the enemy's own planning. The listener at the drain was drawn from no one in particular; contemporaries reported recognizing a neighbor regardless, and the plate is held in the Bureau of Renewable Discourse archive.

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