Captain Tick-Mouse
Original images here.
I am not sure having a rat-like figure as your patriotic icon is the best choice of imagery.
Here is a little background on the character, from this source.
Comments
Presumably, the tick part has to do with watches rather than bloodsucking arachnids. I guess the idea was to get kids to drag their parents into jewelry stores wherein they would buy Elgin watches.
Posted by ges on 12/01/15 at 08:49 AM
@ges: Merchants, when I was growing up in the 50's were still, pretty much, local people running family businesses and a campaign like this would have been seen more as a public service than an advertising poly. Everyone in town already knew the local jeweler 'cause he'd've kept Grandpa's Sunday-Go'ta-Meetin' watch running all this years.
That 'rat face' in WWII would become the Japanese.
That 'rat face' in WWII would become the Japanese.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 12/01/15 at 09:28 AM
Tick mouse is another name for white footed mouse. They carry the borellia (Lyme) pathogen that infects the ticks starting the chain.
Posted by F.U.D. on 12/01/15 at 11:34 AM
I see that white-footed mice pass the Lyme disease bacteria to ticks, but I don't see any references to white-footed mice as "tick mice." Furthermore, nobody knew about Lyme disease in 1917. So I maintain that it's likely the name of the military rodent has more to do with watches than arachnids.
Posted by ges on 12/02/15 at 02:05 AM
Are we sure that this wasn't found in an old "National Lampoon"?
Posted by KDP on 12/02/15 at 09:46 AM
I've been living I a cave all these years. This is the first I've ever heard of Miss Columbia, oh yeah, and that mouse guy too.
Posted by GFinKS on 12/07/15 at 02:47 PM
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Category: Anthropomorphism | Politics | Propaganda, Thought Control and Brainwashing | War | 1910s