Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 274, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1919 — An Evil and Its Cure. [ARTICLE]

An Evil and Its Cure.

—lnterest In Kansas City’s efforts to rid itself of the billboard nuisance try where the citizens are awake to the importance of maintaining urban and suburban (HsfrictsTn a condition of tidiness and beauty. The absurdity of spending great sums of money for good highways and other public improvements, and then allowing them to be heavily discounted by the presence of glaring and unsightly signs and pictures, is too well understood and too obvious , to call for detailed argument. It appears that what is chiefly needed in order to gain relief from the aggressive billboard, in any city in the United States, is definite and rigorous local action. St. Louis has met with success '4ft +hls-*direct4-on, now Kansas City is following in its footsteps, and many other centers might wisely fall into line. —Christian Science Monitor.