The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-06-17
State Art Society Will Request the
Legislature 20 Act.
Posters BY Waysids Are Becoming Al.
together Too Snowy.
Organization Claims That Much Of the
Display Is Offensive.
The Exhibit at St. Cloud Recently Was
Highly Successful.


From Saturdays Daily.
| The governing board of the state art
society, at its meeting yesterday at the
state capitol, took strong stand against
/ the billboard nuisance. The art society
adopted a resolution protesting against
the abuse of billboard advertising, COM
mending the st. Paul Civic league for
t its stand against the nuisance, and ask
ing that the next legislature pass laws
to remedy conditions.
| The session of the governing board
was regularly monthly meeting and
there was full membership present.
The subject of an abatement of the bill
, board nuisance in st. Paul and in other
cities and towns of the state was brought
before the meeting by the introduction
of the resolution following, which was
unanimously passed by the directors of
the society.
While we recognize the right of the
I producer to acquaint the public with the
nature of his products in any legitimate
| and inoffensive way, and also the fact
that advertising is of mutual benefit
both to the producer and consumer, we
greatly deplore the extent to which it is
carried on in the large cities and many
of the smaller towns of our state, OBJ
securing the prospect of travellers along
our highways and becoming an offense to
the esthetic taste of all who have love
for the beautiful.
We highly commend the efforts of the
Civic League of st. Paul to cultivate
public sentiment by having model sign
board erected and agitating the question
in it's public meetings.
Resolved, That we will gladly CO.
operate with all efforts to secure legis-
lation providing for a state law which
shall tend to regulate and curtail street
advertising throughout the state, either
by imposing a tax or limiting the size
of boarding and the number of places
where advertising may be done.
Robert Koehler of Minneapolis chair
man of the committee, reported at length
on the exhibit recently held at st. Cloud
under the auspices of the state society,
and letters were read from two promi-
nent residents of st. Cloud expressive of
the city's appreciation of the exhibit. w.
| B. Mitchell wrote that the children of his
city had especially been interested in the
display.
William Youngbauer, of the society,
was named committee to confer with
Cass Gilbert, architect of the new state
| capitol, relative to accommodations for
the society in the new state house upon
its completion. 1t was stated at the
meeting that Chairman Seabury, of the
capitol commission, had said it was i'm
possible to find room for the art society
in the new building. Legal advice has
been sought by the directors of the So
l.ciety, and member said yesterday that
the law gave the capitol commission no
option in the premises and that formal
demand would be made upon the gov
ernor for accommodations in the new
capitol later in the year.
The state society plans to make an ex-
hibit of Minnesota paintings, sculpture
and art craft in the women's building
during the state fair. The exhibit will
include finely carved furniture, decorat-
ed china, pottery, thing and other arts
tic work in manufactured articles.