In the United States. Americans can hardly wait for rationing, regimentation, censorship, the draft. Like working on Ford's assembly line, or doing locomotive cheers for Yale, the war makes us pieces of a machine. In boot camps, draftees march in uniform, having checked their individuality at the gate. Various days of the week are wheatless, meatless, gasless and heatless.
Women work in factories.
Hemlines keep rising. Northern factory owners send agents to hire Southern blacks. Wilson sells the war as the biggest reform movement of them all, the war to end all wars, to make the world safe for democracy. It's an easy sell. Is it ever.