El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-05-02

The bin board nuisance IN e Paso Is great TO be
covered excused by insnuations that attacks upon
- them based meTcenaTy motives. Motives may
not always the best in all attacks; instance
high and lofty motive that bin interests
speakers attacked the nuisance bill board but
gardless Of motives, the bill board IS nuisance that de-
the condemnation of every person with the interests
Of greater e Paso, beautiful FL Paso heart
Wherever goes, bill board staTes in the face
Many people IN truth cannot see from their windows or
bill boards with their piles Of waste and filth behind
them Summer breeze off in many instances from
sleeping porches by the bill boards. Nuisances
mtted behind bill boards and their screening protection
and nearby residents must at their expense have the
sanitary suffer the results inconvenience
maybe sickness There is excuse for bill board
residence sections facing parks every
reason why 1t should be restricted
4 woman IN Sunset Heights said to the Herald the
other day @Why doesn't the Herald fight harder
against these nuisances? know think You fear that
person viii say because newspaper is supported IN
part BY advertising that you attack the bill boards
you attempting t DIVE competitor from the adver
Using field The bill board IS competitor to the
paper. The newspaper IS institution that benefits
city its people The Herald has helped to make El
Paso. What have the bill boards done? believe
that every person who will think you moved by
mercenarv motives there be nine applaud you
for attacking the nuisance. What If purely
selfish motive? newspaper works day in and day out
for the benefit Of the city L prints boost stuff for the
city by the column It helps to make II possible for those
Who spend money IN advertising, to make that money.
What the billboard do? It takes money; that Is all
Every city in the country is fighting the bill board and FL
Paso should start before we are CITY OF nothing but
bill boards.
EBil boards Of doubtful worth advertising
diums, anyhow. In front Of house Is of bill
boards my husband and have discussed for months
They in the face every time out the
frout porch The other day put my hands my hus
bands eyes and asked hiE 10 tell what the bill boards
advertised. He could not tell thing mentioned
the boards. He had looked upon them something he
held contempt and though they face him every minute
that he is home the front porch the front yard
has been impressed with anything they advertise
This is typical Think
This woman Of the many people Of El Paso
who are sincere their fight eliminating the bill board
Go where you viii through the country and you can't find
bill boards infeSng the residential districts any
than they do FL Paso. They thick every street
Even Is being ruined with Signs high
What does FL Paso the bill board that should
be permitted defie the city its possibilities Of
beauty and to annoy its inhabitants?
e PasO has bill board ordnance someone has said
That does relieve from the fact that FL PasO has
Till board nuisance. the ordinance has been enforced
then is loosely drawn and needs amending. At least
the residential sections and the park fonages should be
from the bill boards If the dead walls and the available
lots In the business section must be filed with them
Granted that the OF the lots get rental
from their property for the bill boards has the non-pro
gressive Of vacant lot right damage his pro
Zressiye neghbor benefacor Of the city that he nav
make few dollars himself? The Of a piece of
property who builds upon It is benefacto1 helping TO
make the city. The Of lot has right to
his property to the detrment and injury Of his neigh