ABSTRACT
The pre-war was a process of large transformations and startling reorganizations. Some learners were the soldiers. A "war chest" fund was collected all at one time for many different causes. The people at home were at first in love with war. They thought war was the spectacle and sensation of people giving up things, working together long, hard, purposeful hours, sacrificing. The war was a public drama in which many eagerly took part and lost their private selves in the performance of public functions. Randolph Bourne believed that the experience of the war had damaged the inventive, spontaneous, humane, and progressive variety of American life. Feeling and interest had put the United States in the war on the Allied side. Bernard Baruch was made to understand that "the President himself was the only court of appeal" and "that the raising of armies and navies alone was not adequate to the demands of modern war."
