\n o ",ld I,r°spcck)r.s arJ' fHUnt visitors to San *’ ■ - au Saba County. IWS ON ' •''AMERICAN LAWS ON HIGHWAY ADVERTISING PRAISED IN FRANCE By Associated Press. PARIS, Jan. 23.—Those Senators who represent the Basque country and the Norman coast resorts, hav;c introduced in tlio Senate a bill to regulate billboards in the beauty spots of France. As an example of wlmt such legislation can accomplish, they offer the laws of^ Massachusetts and Pennsylvania dealing with advertising on streets and highways. -------- AN IN TUI; Publish id Every Afternoon Corner Navarro at Entered as second class t San Antonio Texas under tin New York Office—The .To] Chicago Office—The Joint Sr. Louis Office—The Join Atlanta Office—The John Sun Francisco Office—The he! Street Los Angeles Office—The J Seattle Office—The John 1-Dallas Office—S. L. Itoscu Washington, D. C.—Wind* Austin, Texas—Ed S. 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Duo to the increase, of sc» yMlat'c' of Texas are at the rate JpROM a report as to ) ^ public-spirited worm oral, a shrewd Legislatu sioner—has outlawed ar BURNING UP BILLBOARDS boards on 7,000 miles of tising in that State cost $ but intelligent, civically bow down and worship mittee from the federate the striking explanation: they are a menace to p: taxes commensurate witl ficiaries, because withou go out of business; they i ues; they shut out light districts, and increase fire Let alone the other > on the highways and the lakes” worth $75,000,000' eminent think these are v thus protecting life in me blotching the landscape, longer merely in the expei nesota and several other S and all the laggards follow roNi 'jj.LLHUA;iinr ouu tne limit set will be Febrti 15- Azfl2- •+ Franco'May Ban Billboards. Paris, Jan. 23.—Those senators who represent the Basque country and the Norman coast resorts, have introduced in the Senate a bill to regulate billboards in the beauty spots of France. 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BURTON HOLMES, famous world-traveler and lecturer, lately • delivered in Boston a travelogue which—according to the Post there—was “highly significant” in this respect: Mr. Holmes particularly commented on the beauty of the Italian scenery, “free from the disfigurement CIVILIZATION— caused by billboard advertising.” AND BILLBOARDS Probably.“in no other country on the globe”—that comment from Symphony Hall platform moved the Post to add—“are natural beauties'more frequently marred by this method of exploitation than in the United States. There is no spot sacred to these ‘out-of-door advertisers.’ The opposition to such methods is spreading, however. Billboards and signs along the public highways offend more people than they please. They intrude very often most unexpectedly and inappropriately, and just as often do more harm than help for the promotion of sales.” That man or woman is the exception who, motoring about the country with friends, has not heard someone in the party exclaim, either indignantly or scornfully, against these blotches^ upon the landscape; the ugliness that, from billboards at road^j side or in field, from signs nailed to .trees, from letters on roof or barn-wall, thrusts itself upon the/eye. Matthew Arnold defined civilization as “the element or power of conduct, of intellect and knowledge, of beauty, and of social life and manners, and all needful to build up a complete human life”. Civilization— intellect—beauty—social refinement: Pray consider those smears with which we desecrate the face of woodland or lakeshore or hill! lie*.