Decisions on april 2, 1917, an anxious president Woodrow Wilson voices his fore bodying, and theyll forget there was such a thing as tolerance. To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless. Conformity would be the only virtue. Days later, with the president leading as he must, america is at war. All doubts are now submerged. All separate voices drowned out by the great chorus of the war effort. Do your bit for the boys over there the spirit of 17 on the American Home front, a nation rallying to the war. Behind them, keeping the spirit moved is the machinery of government. A new agency set up by the president under a journalist named george creole with his committee on Public Information which will grow from a handful to 150,000, creole tackles the war effort as a plain publicity proposition. The worlds greatest adventure in advertising. It will be an allstar production off stage and on. The march king, drumming up sales of liberty bonds with the star of the metropolitan opera, anna case a