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Show (;(()- YE KILLliOAKI). s y Wc see a dispatch from New York to the effect that 15 of the largest concerns in America have signed an agreement to dispense with billboard advertising. That means at least 50 pe? cent of the soap, auto, tire, spark plug, flour and yeast bill boards that have desecrated our highways and obstructed oui view are to pass out. Billboard advertising has been overdone and now is paying the penalty. Every motorist in Delta car point to from one to a dozen dangerous points that would be made afe if billboards were torn down. In big cities thousand of homes are marred by billboards on an adjoining lot or jus across the street. They do add beauty to the smaller towns Tearing them down is a good thing, and these 15 concerns ar not going to injure their business any by so doing. In fact, i will help them, because they will now take the money they spen on billboards and put it in the only legitimate form of advertis ing known to modern business the daily and weekly newspa per of America. |