Tke National Garden Association 
President: Leonard Barron, F.R.H.S. 
Honorary Vice-Presidents: J. Horace McFarland, Mrs. Francis King, Mrs. Russell Tyson, Mrs. 
Thomas G. Winter, Mrs. Samuel Sloan, Mr. Frederick Newbold, Mr. Robert Pyle, Mrs. John 
D.Sherman. 
Cooperating Societies: National Plant, Flower and Fruit Guild; American Dahlia Society; 
American Iris Society; Ontario Horticultural Association; American Forestry Association; 
Women’s National Farm and Garden Association; Wild Flower Preservation Society; National 
Horticultural Society; The Agassiz Association; The School Nature League. 
8 N THE December issue the Association cast a very 
small pebble into the wide ocean of public affairs. Our 
protest against objectional billboards was a small stone, 
but large enough to arouse nation-wide interest and to 
bring direct results—the first was a letter from the President 
of the Glens Falls (N. Y.) Club giving in detail the following 
constructive program already started by this organization. 
“Banish the Billboards—Save the Scenery” 
T HE natural beauty of our highways is doomed unless im¬ 
mediate action is taken. Legislation against billboards is 
a slow process. Public opinion has greater power. If we can 
register with the national advertisers protests from all over the 
United States against signboard advertising, we shall create a 
decided check on this nuisance. 
The Plan As Adopted Is Simple: Each State Federation of 
Clubs to appoint a State Billboard Chairman. Each club to 
appoint a committee of at least four. Each member to be 
responsible for one letter of protest each week. The State 
Chairman to advise each club monthly of four national adver¬ 
tisers to receive the letters. Convince the advertiser that bill¬ 
boards make his goods unpopular and he will use no more bill¬ 
boards. 
The Spirit of the Campaign 
Dignified — Courteous — Kindly 
IVage a local campaign against billboards in your own community! 
States Which are Saving Their Highways 
W ISCONSIN has declared its most famous scenic highway 
a memorial highway. It is to be cleared of signboards. 
New Jersey has more than 50 committees at work on the 
protest-by-letter campaign. 
In Massachusetts the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce is 
working earnestly to abate this nuisance locally. 
Florida has removed more than 5,000 billboards. 
In response to the local Glens Falls campaign, the following 
national advertisers agreed to keep their advertising off the 
Lake George Highway: The Goodyear dire Co., Kelly-Spring- 
field Tire Co., B. F. Goodrich Tire Co., Fisk Tire Co., Supreme 
Gulf Oil Co., Armour’s Butter, and Kirkman & Son. 
And as a further result of this club-activity, a National Anti- 
Billboard Society has been formed. 
The Right Kind of Advertiser 
U PON learning of the cooperation of these nationally known 
firms, The National Garden Association at once wrote to 
them for a definite statement of their points of view. The 
replies received from the Kelly-Springfield Fire Co., and from 
Kirkman & Son evince such genuine love of country, coupled 
with broad-minded business idealism that we take pleasure in 
quoting from them; they are letters that every roadside ad¬ 
vertiser would do well to ponder: 
“As the (bill) boards of advertisers began to multiply along the 
roads, we sensed a strong and growing objection (to themjand about 
two years ago, we began to let the contracts for all our boards lapse as 
rapidly as they ran out. 
We took this step, first: because there were so many boards on the 
roads that we believed this sort of advertising had lost much of its 
value. Second: because we felt that the medium had been abused 
to an extent that made complaints on the part of the public justifiable. 
(Signed) Kelly-Springfield Tire Co. 
“ It gives us great pleasure to quote the following instructions issued 
to the poster companies on December 7th, 1921 : 'We do not wish any 
Kirkman & Son posters placed either on locations which might be in 
any way construed as spoiling a rural vista or on locations which are 
so located as to be objectionable to the residents of the community in 
which they are situated.’ Mr. Kirkman, who issued the order embodied 
in this quotation, was thoroughly in sympathy with the idea that has 
since been given so much momentum, even at a time when so far as our 
knowledge went, the Women’s Clubs had not even started any propa¬ 
ganda. When we first heard from the Glens Falls Woman’s Club, July 
last, we immediately issued instructions that any of our posters which 
might have been placed along the Lake George and Bolton Highway 
were to be removed. Since then we have received letters from the various 
other organizations, and Mr. Kirkman has reaffirmed his original stand. 
We are only too happy to be able to cooperate in a movement which 
is now rapidly reaching national proportions, and we are in full sym¬ 
pathy and accord with it, and will be very happy to see the day when 
the natural beauties of our landscape are not marred by unsightly 
signs of any description.” 
(Signed) Kirkman Sr Son 
Available Lectures and Bulletins 
I N THE observance of National Garden Week last year, one of 
the greatest needs of many communities was for illustrated 
lectures on gardens and garden work. It is with the keenest 
pleasure, therefore, that we announce to clubs and communities 
of New York State that the Agricultural College at Ithaca has 
prepared lectures and lantern slides on the following topics: 
Insect Pests of the Garden Community Buildings 
Birds in Their Relation to Agriculture Community Play Grounds 
Rural Landscaping The Family Garden 
Public Road Improvement What to Grow in the Family Garden 
Requests should be made at least two weeks in advance and 
should be sent to: New York State College of Agriculture, Ex¬ 
tension Service. Visual Instruction, Ithaca, New York. 
Of interest to every gardener are the following booklets which 
may be had on request: 
Weeds and How to Control Them The City Home Garden 
Growing Fruit for Home Use Community Bird Refuges 
Raspberry Culture 
For the gardeners of Indiana: 
Shrubs and Roses Fruit for Indiana Beautifying the Home Grounds 
Send all requests for bulletins to 7 he National Carden Association, Carden City, N. Y. 
National Garden Week for 1924, April 20th-26tk 
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