gave a list of nurseries to whom seed had been sent by the Arboretum, 
and the Garden Club managed to secure three hundred of these trees. 
Park The Board of Park Commissioners kindly gave permission to use 
Planting a hiUside in beautiful Ault Park overlooking the Little Miami valley, 
and the trees have been planted irregularly over several acres of rolling 
ground. So far they have done very well and the Club looks for- 
ward in the course of years to have an absolutely unique memorial, 
as this will be the largest grove of trees of this variety in the Country. 
Billboards "News and Views" has been asked to say a word about the sign- 
board menace with the hope that Member Clubs of the Garden 
Club of America will whenever it is possible, make a protest against 
this most unsightly offense. Not so much in cities, where it is hoped 
that civic organizations do their best to discourage this method of 
advertising, but through the country. My correspondent feels we 
should not accustom ourselves to shutting our eyes to the adver- 
tiser's appeals to Wear his Ready-mades, Eat his Bacon, Use his 
Tires, Stay at his Hotels, or Chew his Gum, without a protest. 
Strange as it may seem, these hideous signs cannot be excluded 
on the mere ground of unsightHness, — municipal power over them 
ends when "considerations of pubhc safety, health, morals and good 
government" have been met. Some time ago a Court of Appeals 
held that esthetic considerations are a matter of luxury rather than 
of necessity. This may be law, but it certainly isn't common sense. 
Why may not offense to the eye be regulated by courts? And is there 
no remedy for the temptation of "Dollar Diplomacy," which wins 
the farmer over to the side of the advertiser? 
Dr. Johnson once told the faithful Boswell that he preferred 
Fleet Street for his daily walk because "the country is so tiresome 
with one field just Uke another." He might reverse his decision if 
he traveled much between Philadelphia and New York; on this jour- 
ney a great many of the obnoxious fields are quite hidden. Would 
the old gentleman's urban soul be satisfied with the wooden cows 
of the Jersey meadows, I wonder, or by the "Open Books" of heroic 
size which decorate every cross-road on Cape Cod? 
In a current magazine a Yale professor describes a trip of sixty 
miles which he made daily for some time last Summer. Over that 
short distance he counted seven hundred signboards large enough 
to be read from a moving train, and illuminated at night by a flood of 
light; this count did not include the innumerable small signs nailed 
to fences and telegraph poles. He ends his article by saying: "The 
ingenuity of these advertisers is evident from the location of the 
signs, which were most numerous at curves in the road, they met the 
eye of the traveler as he made the turn, and at night were picked up 
by the headlights of the automobiles, standing out distinctly." 
SO 
