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WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
September, 1918 
Wisconsin Horticulture 
Published Monthly by the 
Wisconsin State Horticultural Society 
12 N. Carroll St 
Official organ of the Society. 
FREDERIC CRANE FIELD, Editor. 
Secretary W. S. H. S., Madison, Wis. 
Entered as second-class matter May 13, 1912, 
at the postoffice at Madison, Wisconsin, under 
the Act of March 3, 1879. 
Advertising rates made known on application. 
On this little page, which this 
iionth the editor claims as his own, 
there appears the picture of a 
boy who fought bravely and died; 
fought and died for you and 
for me. Reluctantly have I done 
this, but he, with the thousands of 
others who have as bravely died, 
belong now to all of us. 
His blood cries, not for venge- 
ance but for justice, and in the 
name of all those who have sac- 
rificed sons I ask that you do not 
falter in your determination that 
this Beast among nations be for- 
ever rendered impotent to over- 
turn civilization. 
Do not be too optimistic, for it 
is a long way yet to complete vic- 
tory. Do not, I beg of you, listen 
now to false and hypocritical cries 
of “peace” from the enemy. But 
rather summon greater courage 
and determination to Carry On. 
A determination to crush disloy- 
alty at home, to support our boys 
over there to the end that right 
and justice may prevail : Else 
this boy (and all the others) who 
died for the principles they held 
most dear, and for this and this 
alone left their homes, their 
schools and their country; who, 
because they believed that “the 
right is more precious than 
peace,” and each made of “his 
breast the bulwark and his blood 
the moat,’’ will have died in vain. 
What will your answer be? 
LIEUTENANT MARIAN C. CRANEFIELD 
Horn March 22, 189(5 
Killed in action, July 31, 1918 
Under the little crosses where they rise 
The soldier rests. Now round him undismayed 
The cannon thunders, and at night he lies 
At peace beneath the eternal fusillade. 
That other generations might possess — 
From shame and menace free in years to come — 
A richer heritage of happiness, 
He marched to that heroic martyrdom. 
Esteeming less the forfeit that he paid 
Than undshonored that his flag might float 
Over the towers of liberty, he made 
His breast the bulwark a.nd his blood the moat. 
(From poems by Alan Seeger. ) 
