Show down with the unsightly Bill billboard LEA FALLS N the GLENS G users of billboards by the square inch waa the slogan with which joseph pennell launched a recent attack against the lurid advertising which he says makes the american people the laughing stock of the world that la Is what Is done in france continued mr air pennell long an earnest worker against the billboard which ho he charges has all but ruined tho the beauty spots of oc tilts country in france merchants chanto cannot afford to advertise this way viny the government collects a takfour tax for every square inch of space rented out to the bill sticking vandals who go around debauching debau ching the landscape with their cheap posters and glue pots the latest recruits to the anti bill board army in america ore are the women of glens falls who are doing what the women in the a suburbs U of philadelphia did when they started to free that district of obnoxious signs they have obtained the operation cooperation co ca of 0 local merchants who have agreed to give up billboard advertising and the movement bids fair to become a statewide state wide cam laign letters have been sent to women all members of important Impo clubs and organizations throughout the state otate and many of cheso women will help in the work officers of automobile clubs cluba have agreed to use their influence with big advertisers and club members toward meeting the demands of public opinion meetings am planned and a strenuous crusade to clear the state highways of unsightly advertisements HOW heavy the tax proposed by ur 1 pennell should be beor or whether it should be federal state or county were mat tera he be said must bo be decided but ur mr pennell added that the tax ty to be effell ve lit in doing away with the billboards would have to be a stiff one mr Pent pennell deemed important tho action taken by local debt civic societies and automobile associations eions sin ln different parts of the country out in colorado they have put pit gha law tto to hotop signboards sign boards after a visitor had said tou have two I 1 things in colorado silver and scenery but butyok you have painted your scenery with patent medicine |