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WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
March, 1918 
Wisconsin Horticulture 
Published Monthly by the 
Wisconsin State Horticultural Society 
12 N. Carroll St. 
Official organ of the Society. 
FREDERIC CHAN E FIELD, Editor. 
Secretary W. S. H. S'., Madison, wis. 
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Keeping- the Faith 
The Youths Companion of 
Boston has been published for 
nearly a century and still main- 
tains a high standard of excel- 
lence. The writer has had the 
great privilege of being a constant 
reader of the Companion for 
thirty-seven years and enjoys it 
now quite as much as in the be- 
ginning. It is clean from cover 
to cover. Its fiction possesses high 
literary merit, is never morbid, 
but always inspirational. 
Two reasons have inspired this 
unsolicited tribute : a deep, heart- 
felt appreciation of what I be- 
lieve this periodical has done for 
the youth of our country and to 
call attention to the beautiful lit- 
tle story taken from the Chil- 
dren’s page of the Companion and 
printed elsewhere in this issue. I 
want to believe and do believe it 
is truth and not fiction. 
F. Cranefield. 
The Business of Winning. 
It is time that we began to think 
in concrete personal terms about 
the business of winning the war. 
To a good many people in Ameri- 
ca that has been and still is some- 
body’s else business. 
The President can’t win this 
war. The Democratic Party can’t 
win it. Neither can the Army nor 
the Navy, nor the farmers, nor the 
laborers, nor the capitalists. You, 
whoever you are and whatever 
you are doing, must win it person- 
ally. The business of winning is 
everybody’s business. Any man 
who is not ready to make it his 
personal affair is a coward run- 
ning from the field of battle. 
From this time on there can be 
only three classes in the United 
States — Americans, pro-Germans 
and yellow dogs. Many people 
would lump the two last, but 
wrongly, because in the third 
group there are many who, once 
awakened to a class conscious- 
ness of their yellow dogginess, 
may be saved. We refer, of 
course, to the men who are seek- 
ing party and partisan advantage 
in this crisis; to the red-tapers 
and incompetents who are ob- 
structing and muddling every- 
thing they touch; to the grand- 
standers and limelighters who 
see nothing but an opportunity 
for personal advertising and ag- 
grandizement in the national per- 
il ; and to the profiteers, to whom 
all dollars look alike, even those 
that are blood-stained. 
Let there be no misunderstand- 
ing in the mind of any man about 
these things. Votes made now by 
specious appeals to discontent 
mean lives lost. Incompetents 
continued in office mean trenches 
taken by the enemy. Strikes that 
squeeze the last penny out of our 
need for haste mean men drown- 
ing in the Atlantic and soldiers 
sacrificed in France. 
The yellow dogs are in a minor- 
ity. They must be converted or 
sent to the pound. The pro-Ger- 
mans should be there now. The 
great silent majority of us who 
are single-hearted for America 
cannot be soldiers, but every man 
and woman of us can back up a 
soldier to the limit. 
— Saturday Evening Post. 
‘Whispering Traitors’ Denounced 
by Taft. 
Chicago — ‘ ‘ Whispering trait- 
ors, ” said ex-President Taft be- 
fore the national service congress, 
“have been the centers through- 
out the country of discontent. In 
little communities you will find 
that the presence of two or three 
who have suggested reasons why 
we ought not to have gone into 
the war, why we did wrong to 
Germany in this, why we did 
wrong to her in that — should have 
kept us out of the war, and that 
has a paralysing effect upon the 
enthusiasm of our people. It takes 
the fine edge off patriotism among 
those to whom these suggestions 
are rendered. 
“The time is coming, my 
friends — we might as well face it 
— the time is coming when we may 
