age October 18,1978 -Nonh Shore News

The lawns are sad and sodden. The last flowers 7
of summer are: withering. The falling leaves are .
_ returning to Mother Earth. But very shortly --

Sap eee ar me

unless we do something about it fast -- a new and |

“school 1

_ “They'll be presented z as. the
- candidates who care about

unwelcome November springtime will suddenly be [oe
| bursting out all around us. again. |

We’ re. ‘talking about the ;
‘and .

unsightly, pointless. |
Spendthrift forest of can-

- front lawns, utility poles and

grass verges throughout the |

‘North Shore each year when
the date for the municipal
elections draws near.

On every block and in-
tersection. their garish two-

word messages exhort us to .

“Vote Smith”, “Vote Brown”
or “Vote Jones”. Period. The

staccato command of. the

drill sergeant: “Quick march:
_ to the polling booth and put
your X against this name.

Don't ask why. Just do. as

you re told!”

The advertising boys’ will
explain: it differently, of
course. It’s all “exposure”,
they'll tell. you. Give a

-candidate’s mame enough

“exposure” and he’ll win — or
if he doesn't, he ought to
have done.

What they're really talking
about is indecent exposure.

Indecent in every sense of

the word..

‘Who needs these offensive
and meaningless eyesores,

‘strung even for two or three .

weeks along our pleasant
suburban roads and -at-

tractive residential avenues? 7

INSULT

It certainly can't. be
today’s.

want to know a whole lot
more about the candidates

than their surnames prefixed ~
by the-word “vote”. ‘Maybe -
‘Signs
sometimes did a job with the ~
simple peasants of the
nineteenth | century, . but

‘two-word. election

2 hour: service sixd do le

rans nn

. Canadian electorate.
-didate signs that sprout on _

. that kind of money they can
~tell the voters so much more.
about themselves by. other .

municipalities
_ We're talking about a bill for
“$1,000 or higher before the
candidate spends another
cent on telling people who «
he is and what he. stands for.

educated: and.
knowledgeable voters. They

they're merely an insult to
the ‘intelligence of a 1978

. Who needs them? |

It can hardly be the
candidates themselves. For

means, and so much more.

. convincingly.

The ‘stake, |

own immediate |

hundred signs:

the . North

OUTLAY WASTED

‘In addition. quite a lot of

the outlay winds up by being |

wasted. During the later

_ Stages of an election cam-
paign it has become the
tradition | for candidates’ |

‘Signs to be tom down and
destroyed by the: score --

whether oy, ‘mindless van- |
dals; .
nighttime posses of political

“by ‘organized

opponenis;’ or mez erely by
people’ who. don’t like
candidates’ signs.

For the same amount of
‘money as he may spend on
desecrating the . neigh-

borhood with signs the —

average candidate’. can

probably buy the equivalent

board ..and.
printing. for each individual
“ sign ‘cost upward of $2. If
you take a quick count of the ._
number of blocks in your ©
neigh-
borhood, it will come as no
- surprise to learn that several —
‘may be

needed to cover any one ‘of vandal-prone:

Shore. Survived hitherto

adequately.:

‘reduction -- or.

. forthcoming

local newspaper; or a nice

brochure; or thousands of

simple hand-out leaflets; or
heaven knows how many

bumper stickers. All of them

telling his story much more
effectively,

uninformative,
‘signs - have
simply

Ugly,

-. because they've always been
used unthinkingly
past.
‘because — every . - candidate.
* who.would like to: drop them |
_. fears to do so in” case His
_ rivals continue to use them.

in the

And, of | course,.

So, as a public service,

“this - ‘column and its scribe
make the following offer. in -

order to encourage the
total
elimination --. of ‘unwanted

candidate signs.in North and |

West: Vancouver during. the:
. ele ction
campaigns. — .

HONOR ROLL

- the environment and respect

the intelligence “of the

electorate. Our strong hunch ° {.
is that North Shore residents —

will note their names with

gratitude. .

are eight issues of the News
before: election day.

names carried into virtually

‘every household in North |

and) West Vancouver on
eight separate occasions
during the next four weeks.

- In editorial space it’s the

and with. kind of. advertising money

minimum. offence: ‘to. the
. public he’s trying to per-
: suade.

can't buy.

Candidates who want to
climb om the “mo signs”.

bandwagon are invited to.
send in their written pledge

right away. Address it to
FOCUS at the North Shore
News, 1139. Lonsdale
Avenue,.North Vancouver,
and mark -.it “Pledge” in big,

bold letters... | 7 aa

Between now and’ election es

day (November 18) every
FOCUS. column and every -

SUNDAY BRUNCH column

_will carry, free of charge, an
Honor Roll of all candidates
who pledge not-.to use signs - _.

- showing against each name

the office for which he or she |
| is running, together with the |

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