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Aside from the additional information that can be conveyed by 

 such symbols, their use will help make highway travel more under- 

 standable, safe, and enjoyable for our foreign visitors and tourists. 

 Also, roadside businesses will benefit from these symbols thus remov- 

 ing the desire for erection of roadside signs of their own. 



J. LEWIS SCOTT. Highway billboards constitute a menace to our 

 life, liberty, happiness, and sight. They should be classed as sight 

 blight or air pollution. 



A Federal standardization committee should be formed by law 

 to limit and control all future sign sizes and locations. States could 

 follow with similar laws. Committee members should be chosen 

 from those in tune with architectural beauty in relation to natural 

 beauty. 



After proper research on the architectural relationship of signs to 

 natural beauty, the committee should prepare and issue guidebooks 

 or standardization criteria for the placement and erection of all signs. 

 Its coverage should include any commercial or industrial sign on 

 land, sea, or in the air that is to be erected by Federal, State, or local 

 governments or by private industry. 



Signs should be erected only on the advertiser's place of business 

 and never on property leased for the sole purpose of advertising. 



The committee should work with State, county, and local planning 

 commissions to establish review boards. 



W. R. SQUIRES, Jr. The Republic of Mexico has been operating 

 for several years a border beautification program and such progress 

 has been made in the appearance of their border areas, that the 

 comparable locations in the United States are becoming quite shabby. 

 I would suggest a U.S. border improvement program be considered 

 by the President so that the entrances to our country will become 

 and remain attractive and impressive. 



Mrs. FRANK E. WILLIAMS, Sr. As a delegate from West Virginia 

 to this conference, I wish to offer the following suggestion: There 

 are many neglected areas and dilapidated buildings in full sight along 

 our main highways. For those now existing, there is no way to com- 

 pel the owners to remedy these conditions. Persuasion is of no avail. 

 For the prevention of the continuation of such conditions, a new 

 approach to the problem seems to be necessary. 



The Federal Government has invested millions in building roads 

 through the countryside, thereby increasing the value of the adjoin- 



