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Show in a land that from the beginning never suffered as Alncrica has suffered suf-fered in this field. Europe is cleaning clean-ing up the highways in part to attract at-tract American tourists. America's highways, lined with bills and poster drive the tourist abroad. When America figures the cost in defacement, in traffic dangers and in general barbarism that billboards and unsightly shacks and vender's places impose on the country, action will be taken to drive them from the roads. The highways are costly properties. They are the nation's nearest parks and areas for recreation. To lower their value and deface them by billboards bill-boards has no excuse. England and France, Belgium, Japan are taking action against billboards. When will America do likewise? By a tip averaging about $25 property pro-perty holders are pursuaded to let their lands for billboards. The damage dam-age to the country and to the people generally is far more than the individual indi-vidual profits made from highway advertising. As a nuisance, if by no other way, billboards should be prohibited. EUROPE DRIVES OUT BILLBOARDS. While Europe drives the billboards from her hills and highways, America Ameri-ca still wallows in the ruck of ugliness ugli-ness and the defacement of the natural landscape. By rigorous law in Italy, Germany, Austria and elsewhere, else-where, Europe is cleaning up the countryside and the pest of signs and billboards is almost exterminated |