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Show The Ways of Officials. ' The things ieople put up with from those whom they vote into office are numerous. Xew York cow has her subway open. It is a well constructed passageway and pains were taken to make it artistic as well as useful, but the powers that be hjive catered into a contract with a firm of billposters wit'u the result that the subway is plastered plas-tered ftfoni end to cud with hideous and disfiguring posters. The billboard nuisance has been fought for jears but with comparatively little success as most f the boards are erected on private property, but when a city lets its properly for advertising purposes it is about time to call a halt. We doubt if the greater part of such advertising pays. It is crude and inartistic and while it attracts attention it fails to convince. It shrieks at you, but does ot coax you. In fact it often fcffends those who might be purchasers were the goods advertised ia a different way. - In sharp contrast with the money getting, grasping grasp-ing spirit displayed in allowing the subway to be filled with advertising is the way the employees are treated. The men who take the tickets are paid tl.40 a day and they work twelve hours. They have half an hour for lunch, but they cannot leave the subway to eat it, so they must stay there and munch cold victuals. New York' is continually bragging about herself. Maybe she does it to distract attention from the things of which she 6hould be ashamed. |