‘Stick no bills’ is a notice which is often displayed on roadside walls. In any city, even in villages, posters are now a common sight. The walls and lamp-posts are simply buried under them.
We have no quarrel with posters as such. But why should clean walls be chosen as display boards? Slogans may be good, bad or indifferent; but why plant them on my boundary wall without permission? Just imagine, one fine morning I discover that a host of slogans have suddenly bloomed right over my front gate. How nasty!
The purpose of the notice ‘Stick no bills’ is, of course, to check such vandalism. But it most cases, the notice goes unheeded. Bills are often stuck rampantly over the very notice — ‘Stick no bills’. During an election the candidates and their parties start a battle of posters against one another, and the innocent walls become the worst sufferers. The notice forbidding the placarding of walls — ‘Stick no bills’ — is grossly violated, and nobody is sorry for that.
Some public places may surely be kept reserved for displaying posters and bills. But in other places, the notice forbidding their display should be strictly enforced. What is more important is that all citizens should be taught to love their own city. It is not the fear of law but the love of one’s own town or village which alone can solve the problem.
We have no quarrel with posters as such. But why should clean walls be chosen as display boards? Slogans may be good, bad or indifferent; but why plant them on my boundary wall without permission? Just imagine, one fine morning I discover that a host of slogans have suddenly bloomed right over my front gate. How nasty!
The purpose of the notice ‘Stick no bills’ is, of course, to check such vandalism. But it most cases, the notice goes unheeded. Bills are often stuck rampantly over the very notice — ‘Stick no bills’. During an election the candidates and their parties start a battle of posters against one another, and the innocent walls become the worst sufferers. The notice forbidding the placarding of walls — ‘Stick no bills’ — is grossly violated, and nobody is sorry for that.
Some public places may surely be kept reserved for displaying posters and bills. But in other places, the notice forbidding their display should be strictly enforced. What is more important is that all citizens should be taught to love their own city. It is not the fear of law but the love of one’s own town or village which alone can solve the problem.
