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Show Fighting Ugliness ' Commendation is due the state high-nay high-nay authorities of Georgia in connection connec-tion with a recent resolution prohibiting prohibit-ing billboards and other advertising signs along the roadways of the state. . Declaring .it to be the policy of the .highway board to encourage the preservation pre-servation of.,natural beauties along its .thoroughfares,, as. well as to promote the planting of trees and shrubs, the resolution further prescribes "that all advertising signs be - prohibited on the right of way, and that the beautifying of the highways be encouraged by the planting of trees and the clearing away of all unsightly objects." The various women's organizations v hich are cooperating in the movement f ir beautif ication are greatly encourag -cd by the action of the Georgia authorities author-ities and other official bodies throughout through-out the entire country. Forward looking look-ing business men and advertisers are coming to realize that billboards and rgns which mar the landscape are detrimental -to their business. Some firmer billboard advertisers are dis-c.Ti'H;-ng them for this reason. When we become thoroughly civilized civili-zed the billboards will not be tolerated in residential sections of towns and cities, nor along the highways." |