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Show JOSEPH PENNELL WOULD WIPE OUT BILLBOARDS "Defacers of Nature Appeal Only to Illiterate Oafs" 1 1 1 By JOS KIM! PHNNKIjU World -Famotu knertcan nut. II- luMrntiir mul Aiillmr In ;in liif-r- i.-w wiiii i .lunr.i M Thlerrj fur M Sen loc. I NEW YORK. Killbnardu are a na-l na-l tional blot. Every billboard In the United States might to be abolished. I They steal the beauty of country , and town. They are built by vulgar noiNy k rHbker to appeul to the illlt-, illlt-, erate. Tliey nr abominations that debauch the country- positive proof J of America degenerai y. i Why ihOUld we have to look at j : mammoth ec-ores that tell us what to eat and drink and smoke and chew" Newspapers are the plar for advertisements. ad-vertisements. If you don't want to look at thorn you don't have to. But 'th' billboards Klure at you. defacing the cities and defiling the country. Great advert iser who use. the news- , popern don't une billboards. I Every spot of beauty in the country' ! j Is fouled by some jclgantlc sign devoted de-voted in pills and piffle Een th I ehurchen would save you by them. The bill stickers can't make them mi. -tie They can't get a decent art-: 1 1st care to work on them. I know, nn artist who was ald to havs turned down an offer of 1 10.000 rather than , have his art reduei-d to such filth. PPEAL TO II blTI It 1TE. lllllboards don't appeal to Intelll-gent Intelll-gent people, but only to Illiterate oafs. ' America Is being flooded with the' rubbish of Europe and thin form of i fool advertising is dedicated to them f'owardlec- of the highbrows, who! could stop the billboard disgrace If' they wanted to, and the Infernal Ignorance Ig-norance of tho people appealed to aro to blame We nave plenty of laws to flop them, but tho laws are not enforced. en-forced. No lav. i- enforced In this money by breaking It. They stopped them In England j where It Is illegal to put up any bill-I bill-I board which obscures the view of the , landscape. In t itles it Is illegal to j put up a billboard that is a silhouette against the k And It Is Illegal to throw nn Illuminated sIkh In the sky ' as tiny are now talking of doing l hero Tli'.". laws mean that all blll-j blll-j boards are Illegal. If I heir must be outdoor advertls- Inp. lot them uso small posters on ! buses thai do ii"t stand still and oh- literate the scenery, or kiosks for posters, pos-ters, as In France. Billboard men themsolvej admit billboards are only one per cent of all advertising. Well, if it's i--o small us " tJr j " I lovc THY ROCKS AND RILLS, t THY WOOD3 ANDTmPLED HILLS" TV ' A that it wouldn't be much loss to the, I bill stickers If billboards were torn , down. Hl.(.ri,. TION M'KDl.l) Rotten signs arc all over the country. coun-try. The waste of lumber and electric elec-tric light on Broadway proves we are idiotic children. Chicago had Its blot lln a huge "Boost Chicago" sln at the entrance to the fine new brulRe leading lead-ing to a chewing gum factory Near Grant's Tomb tho streets aro full Oil defacements. Th- he:iutitul Horseshoe Curve near Alimnni has a billboard , monstrosity "Weir ine tv; our City." What we need is a cabinet department depart-ment to regulate these things a minister of fine, arts who could rescue a country now Kolng to ruin. To got rid of billboards tnx thorn out of existence. Tux the fnrmn- who rents his barn, the landowner who permits a sign to be crei t d fc bill stlc kc-r who put6 up tho bill, and I'M u Is that .i n a lverl i- d A ml make the taxes so high that they will wreck tho billboard. vki ron OF PKVXEUD One of the most distinguished art-isl art-isl in the world Is Joseph rennell, who has declared war on billboards Famous especially for his etchings. Pen hell has been crowned with honors hon-ors by many art societies in America and by practlcallv every country in Europe. He is 62, a Rhlladelphian by birth, tall, thin, sloop-shouldered, with gray hair and whiskers He Is tho author Of many books. Including The Author- i ied Life of James McNeill Whistler. |