Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1920 — SEES BILLBOARDS AS WASTE [ARTICLE]

SEES BILLBOARDS AS WASTE

Eastern Authority Gives Excellent Reason Why Unsightly Structures Should Be Done Away With. \ ’ — - ’ Attacking the American billboard from a new angle, Mr. Joseph Pennell declares that “the lumber expended in unnecessary and unsightly billboards in this country would rebuild nearly everything destroyed abroad The paint wasted here would cover all the new buildings, and the labor would be of Incalculable benefit in what we hear is the great essential of produo ing more.” The argument should de much to help the anti-billboard campaign, for, although many will hesitate to believe that Mr. Pennell’s arithmetic is altogther correct in so nice a balance between billboards in Amer ica and “everything destroyed” in Europe, there will be plenty to agree that the unnecessary erection of Amer lean billboards consumes a vast, deal of material that would be very helpful in the erection of buildings In Europe. Meantime the billboards multiply, and by so doing add constantly to the evidence of their own undesirability.