| Show WOMEN ATTACK I BilLBOARDS 1 Clubs Act to Abolish Commercial Signs on i Roads of Nation BY Bl- TOU C ARC I r S1 Special lal O nl COP Copyright right 1 1924 4 b bi The Consoli Consoli- Consolidated Consolidated Consolidated dated Press Pres Association RICH RICHMOND D to D Va April 26 2 Seten en e ien hundred And nd fifty Itty ot of o th rIchest women In America left I Virginia tor or their homes homes In north south fast east and et today loday I pledged to bend every erto t to- to toward to toward ward the th ot of e ery hlll board In this country which stands along a rural high highway AY 01 ot in it II residential SectIon lection or of town or city The women woman are arc ar ot of the Garden Garden club ot of America In InI I annual meeting hero here this week I and they thay brought lnore Inore more Rolls Rolls- Rolls to Richmond than the lh old capitol of the tb confederacy knew I existed It Is la agreed ared that the they represented mOre mor millions million In pr- pr prate sate ate at fortunes fortune than any conven conven- convan lion ever v r before betor In this convention city CI Cl EL C n S I They er were such ouch women asIr as aa Vr Mr Thomas J Preston Jr who also toe tor- for marly merly was wa the wife of ot Grover Cleveland Mrs Mr Fairfax Harrison wife ICe of the tha Ih president of ot th the I rn rn railroad Mrs Mr King ICing honorary president ot QC the lh Womans Woman's Woman nIG den don association Robert CHill 0 f Mrs Mr 1 A A J Hutcheson Mill Mis Samuel Sloan Mr I H Harold rold of or Ne New York They w tire women vho tho 0 own n the th oldest and biggest t thomes homes In the tho the aristocrats of or Boston ew tew PhIladelphIa Cincinnati Seattle D ni r Wash Wash- Wash and Richmond l Ml iR 0 0 Ot I I heir helt 0 er helming 8 expression lon lonor or of Intent to to- eradicate t the th e objectionable d ama durin during I heir only onis meeting held here In the Jeferson hotel MIO Mie InC COllI COll C I belin lIn of or New halfman of fit the arid and con committee read n II reo re- report port r-port- port alre the he need or of o q energetic war ir on the th t rd for tor the sake fak sak of or belul ilie alls ails ails dropped their arose aroe and lapped clapped their hair band hande en- en en th Ir Mrs I eUn report recalled to many the th story lory ate a few we weeks l ago ato to h 1 Its effect that I the h Standard Oil ll or of o Califor Califor- nia has hae ha decided to abandon ItS positions v here they C ore ere blotting out beautiful seen seen- seener teen cr er 1 he netta ne s ton on ta l edi- edi editorial edi editorial tonal comment For one on year the lIard Garden n club had been laborIng tot tor such euch Improvement ement and not oni the tb Oil com coill- coill company pany hut tout 11 15 oth othel L national ad- ad ad hll hate ha promised d either to 10 todo todo do ay atay aft ay billboards InS or to I It along alone line lines by the th Gard Garden n club And In I I believe wI w will mahe a renter dent In the th bill I boil boil- bill Mr Mis Iselin dec area areil I smiling I That was as ben the th convention That rose rOBe and applauded to their classi- classi classical cal clasil-cal I cal echo K iM I f flIt fIt It OUTDOORS Mrs Irs iselin pointed out that about 40 10 organizatIons are ar work ork vork- vork working lug ing for tOr the he of or outdoor the Th Garden club ae- ae ac to Mr lr SI W V I L Lawton of or I I Glens Glen rails jalis chairman Is the he In the th fIght Mrs Iselin I said Maid ald Other organizations Include I the Amu Ami Ical icar Ch Ci Chic In Ic association the th I r ay 1 the General r oC o omen vi It omen s a clubS American Scenic and Ills lUs- His Historic sI I I tone atlon society the I American Federation I d ot of o Fin Fine Aria the National of ot Design the Society of ot rum larm o omen omen or of Penns the th I lorida cham chant chamber ber br of ot commerce and the lh th Phila Philadelphia delphia C of or Arts Art which I is b c composed ot of 45 branches of artistic I It was no e explain that the Gar Gar- GarI Gard I d and associates nr are tn Ing to 1 11 lite ibe lh offending boards board horn flom cou h y and residence sec eec sections cc In town or They ho be restricted B say Y the affluent I amateur gardeners to 10 corn commercial |
