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Show H HIGHWAY DEFACEMENT. BJ Hcprcscntatlves if the National BJ Highways Protective Association of BJ ' New York aro working in a number of BJ Btatcs this year. Their efforts is to BJ I nrouso sentiment against tho deface- BJ in cut of highways by advertising signs BM In seven states thero are now laws BM against this practice. Bl j It amounts to Uttlo to clean out BJ f signs from tho roads, If Just outsldo tho street line there are ugly and BJ flaring boards. This is a dllltcult mat- B8 ter to control, owing to legal ob- BJ staclos. The laws apparently permit BK ' a man to mako his land just as un- BM sightly as ho wants to. Tho fact that ho Injures neighboring real cstnto as BM oll as his own, Is not considered BM . ground for Interference with tho rights of private ownership. There aro ways BS however by which such abuses could BM bo gotten rid of. Every automobllo I association Improvement society, and country club should bo an nctlvo agency for beautifying country Ufa. Bm Automobllo associations should not BJ conllno themselves to efforts to Im- Bfl provo road surfaces. All kinds of out BBV dour organizations should bo. Interest- Bflr cd In everything, Bfl Thero nro millions of peoplo who BB object to advertising signs In high- BB ways or painted on barns or scattered BB i'i through pretty rural country. Such BB organizations as aro mentioned abovo BB ft should pass resolutions against such BB ' defacement. They should urgo In so BB far as they may do so legally, that BB their members refrain from patron- BB Iziti;; concerns that resort to this BB most objccttouahlo method ot ndver- BJ In such ways as theso, public sentl- BBj incnt could he so organized t.int bus- BJ Incss concoms would hasten to re- BBj movo their ugly -roadside signs. They BBJ will erect no more tho moment It Is BBJ g BBBBBBBBBBL& "MKiMaii . flhown to them that they create resentment. |