Show PUBLIC EYESORES EYESORE 4 Sylvester Baxters Baxter's article in the June Century A Great Civic Awakening in Am America rica is filled with suggestions ns pertinent Salt L to Salt Laker City He tells of the work of the municipal art societies and shows what they can accomplish in the way of beautifying American Americ n cities In not a few communities communities the people have begun to acquire a taste for beautiful streets as well as beautiful parks They are wa waging ing war on all things that offend the eye and ear as wen as the nostrils A German friend of ours recently visiting a tI large American city seemed outraged by the clang of the electric streetcar street streetcar car gongs and the fire alarm alarm bells He was disgusted with the smoke nuisance and astonished at the pictures on the high f fences ces Most of the big billboards billboards billboards bill bill- boards Lave have gone down in th the more beautiful cities and the day seems not far distant when Salt Lake will come to regard her good looks as worth something something some some- thing in the ejes eyes of the world and will pull down her dilapidated street signs and do away with the unsightly pictures that masquerade under the garb of business If the Council wishes to conserve civic pride in Salt Lakers let it find a way to remove I these public eyesores |