Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 283, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 April 1922 — Page 10

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ARTIST BRANDS BILLBOARDS AS RANK OUTRAGE Joseph Pennell. Famous Illustrator and Author, Calls Them Blot. By JOSEPH PEXXELL, World-Famous American Artist, Illustrator and Author. NEW YOHK, April 7.—Billboards are -i national blot. Every billboard in the United States ought to be abolished. -a"". The Steal the beatl--sSSnsSt tv of country and own. They are TANARUS; built by vulgar V < : " j , money grabbers to K'y>< * appeal to the llllter- ' '&jg ;^’ons debauch ■ mammoth eyesores that tell us what to gj eat and drink and 1 Newspapers are the lri.S# A * meets. If you don't Jos. Pennell. want to look at them you don't have to. But the billboards glare at you, defacing the cities and defiling the country. Great advertisers who use the newspapers don't use billboards. I-OUR OUT PRAISE OF PIERS AND PIFFLE. Every spot of beauty In the country is fouled by some gigantic sign devoted to pills and piffle. Even the churches would you by them. The bill stickers can't make them artistic. They can't get a decent artist scarce to work on them. I know an artist who was said to have turned down an offer of SIO,OOO rather Uian have his art reduced to such filth, f Billboards don’t appeal to Intelligent people, but only to Illiterate oafs. America Is being flooded with the rubbish of Europe and this form of fool advertising is dedicated to them. Cowardice of the highbrows, who could stop the billboard disgrace If they wanted to. and the Infernal Ignorance of the people appealed to are to blame. We have plenty of laws to stop them, but the laws are not enforced. No law is

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enforced '.u this country If anybody can make some money by breaking It. They stopped them in England, where It Is Illegal to put up any billboard which obscures the view of the landscape. In cities It is illegal to put up a billboard that Is a silhouette against the sky. Ad j It Is illegal to throw an Illuminated sign | In the sky—as they are now talking of j doing here. These laws mean that all | billboards are Illegal. “IF MUST, MAKE THEM SMALL." If there must be outdoor advertising let them be small posters on busses that do not stand still and obliterate scenery; or kiosks for posters, ns In France. Billboard men themselves admit billboards are only 1 per cent of all advertising. Well, if It’s so small as that It wouldn’t be much loss to the bill stickj ers if billboards were torn down. Rotten s ! gns are all over the country. The waste of lumber and electric light on Broadway proves we are idiotic children. Chicago had Its blot In a bugre “Boost Chicago” sign at the entrance to the fine new bridge leading to a chewing gum factory. Near Grant's tomb the streets are full of defacements. Tho beautiful Horseshoe Curve near Altoona has a billboard monstrosity, "Welcome to Our City.” What we need is a cabinet department to regulate these things—a minister of fine arts who could rescue a country now going to ruin. To get rid of billboards tax them out of existence. Tax the farmer who rents his barn, the landowner who permits a sign to be erected, the bill sticker who puts up the bill, and the goods that are advertised. And make the taxes so high they will wreck the billboard. GIRL BURGLAR CHIEF. PARIS, April 7.—Marguerite Bertrand, a red-haired girl of IS, has been arrested. Police say she Is the head of a bund of armed appaches terrorizing the outskirts of Paris. She Is known as the “Panther of Mouffetard.” NEW POLITICAL DISEASE. | LONDON, April 7.—A new political dis- ' ease is breaking out among the politicians ! of Engimd, said Lord Linlithgow at a : meeting here. It’s the political foot and mouth disease —“cold feet and hot mouths.’*

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SCIENTISTS OF WORLD WORRY WITH INSECTS Can Human Brains Win in Battle Against Pests. ANT DEVOURS BABIES LONDON, April 7.—Can human brains win In the great struggle that the insect la waging on the very existence of civilization ? That Is the question that Is now agitating British men of science. Prof. Harold Maxwell Lefroy, England’s leading entomologist, has brought forward fourteen Instances of the terrible ravages now being committed by Insects throughout the world. His main example is the Argentine ant, which eats babies. This insect first reached England in 1918, after having spread over half the wolrd, especially Spain, since 1897. It has not merely devoured Infants in theif cradles in the Argentine, but it has completely wiped out the birds of Maderia by eating their nestlings and is ruining the orange and coffee harvests throughout the Eastern and Western hemispheres. KEEPS GREEN FLIES PRISONER. It often kills the plants, not directly, but by encouraging other insects, especially the green fly, which It keeps as a man keeps cows. It even builds houses for them, acts as doctor to them and defends them from enemies. At the same time the ant, which is omniverous, carries and spreads many of the worst human diseases. There is every fear that it may And a congenial home In London. Professor Lefroy next Instances the boll weevil, which attacks the cotton plant. After twenty years of research no preventive has been found against this insect, whose ravages are so well known

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