TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1928. NOTES AND COMMENTS UNSIGHTLY POSTERS.

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 3189, 31 January 1928, Page 4

TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1928. NOTES AND COMMENTS UNSIGHTLY POSTERS.

Though Leeston may not claim to possess any natural beauty, the appearance of the town is made more hideous than is necessary by the governing authority, contrary to its by-laws, permitting blank wall spaces to be splashed with a medley of amusement advertising posters, which are the negation of decorative art. Even in the main street, advance agents of any amuse ment company can bedaub the fences with a hectic jumble of posters, with no one to question their rights. Direet--ly opposite the Guardian office, for instance, there is an untidy vacant section in front of which a fence plastered with circus posters is a perennial offence to the eye, jarring the artistic senses of all who glance in that direc tion. This strip of flaring eyeshock would cause the citizens of any town where there exists the faintest spark of artistic pride to shriek for vengeance upon the perpetrator of such an atrocity, and upon the local authority which passively allows such things to be. Yet oar complacent Town Board apparently has not the slightest compunction in allowing such an infliction to be suffered. The time is overdue for a rigid cleaning up of things which needlessly uglify the town. And, apart from the aesthetic aspect, there should be no room for circus posters in a busy main thoroughfare. The day of advertising an entertainment by means of a large brush and a bucket of paste jis now long past in progressive com-

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