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Show THE BILLBOARDS SHOULD COME DOWN. The Standard joins with the Exam Iner and the women's clubs of the citj in demanding that the billboard nuls ance be abated. If not entirely over come This paper in years past has declared against the objectionable features fea-tures of the big board fences that are hiding places for thugs and a source of foulness, but we have not pressed our objections, preferring that others, free from the suspicion of self inter ests. lead in the crupade. The women or Ogden evidently are resolved to go on with Ihe campaign against the unsightly billboards unfi! ' they tear them don n In Honolulu a similar agitation R It started by the club women with the result that todny Honolulu Is entirely free from the disfigurements A "fence" is known to the police as c rook who deals In stolen goods - reening thieves and murderers from the officers of the law. The bill board fence performs much the same Service for the criminal clement, hid ing the rogues from public gaze Behind the billboards filth accumu lates and from those foul places dit. case may spread. There is much to be said in con damnation of the billboards, there iB ery little to be written in praise Even rhc advertising matter placed on them Is too often offensive |