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Automatic Age

Issue: 1926 February

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cidentally for someone else and were not the owners, which is most
always the case.
Slot machine operators who live permanently in a community
are very foolish if they do not make the vending machine their
principal business and operate slot machines when conditions are
favorable and only as a side line.
We have met a lot of slot machine operators who are pretty wise
birds and if they would devote their evident ability and experience
along legitimate lines they would be better off in the long run. The
easy money does not last; and certainly the game last longer when
it is operated on the side with a minimum of risk.
An Interesting Feature
Of the Operating Business
is the notable change in the
class of men entering this field. W e have come in contact lately
with men who have made a success in other lines of business and
Who were attracted to the possibilities of money making by operat­
ing routes of vending machines of all kinds.
Within the last few days we have received subscriptions from a
Presbyterian minister in Florida, and a doctor of medicine in Los
Angeles. When professional men see the possibilities of vending
Machines it is a sign that high class men are coming into the field.
W e also note how these men go about things. They want to learn
all there is to know about the trade. When men are inclined to
start where others leave off, profiting by the previous experience
° f others in the trade, they are bound to make a success.
There Is Such a Thing
As Being a Good Fellow
but the individual vending
Machine operators of Chicago have not been given a square deal by
Commissioner of Health Herman N. Bundesen. The commissioner
Sets up in public places once in a while and sheds copious tears
When he relates what a hard time he had in his struggle to get up
ln the world. And it seems to us that a man who comes from the
common run of people would have some soft spot in his heart for
the next fellow in the same category. Yet, the commissioner makes
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a rule that all vending machines must have a sanitary chute put
on them. Lots of operators around Chicago are hard working,
honest fellows who make their living by selling a penny’s worth of
merchandise through an automatic machine. It was really a sacri­
fice on the part of some of these men to go to the expense of re­
equipping their machines with the chutes; and when we say it
was a real sacrifice we mean that literally, because some of them
had to go without something else in order to foot that big expense.
And yet although practically all the vending machine operators
have met the requirements, the big and powerful Elevated Railroad
Company has not turned a hand to change their machines.
We cannot refrain at this moment, from using our prerogative
to criticise a public official who picks on the poor fellow and then
dilly-dallies with the powerful who are big enough to bring pres­
sure to bear upon him. The Chicago Elevated Company have the
biggest cinch in the vending machine field. They have the very
best locations, and it is no more than right to make them live up
to the identical requirements that the little fellow must live up to.
Let him do either that or resign.
The Manufacturers Are
Giving Fine Co-operation
in pushing the big National
Convention and Exposition of Operators and Manufacturers at the
Great Northern Hotel, Chicago, March 15, 16 and 17. W e want
to mention particularly the good work done by the Southern Nov­
elty Company, Atlanta, Ga., who have printed a notice in red ink
on their envelopes; and this will be appreciated by the trade at
large. The Exhibit Supply Company, has sent out a lot of special
invitations to all their customers.
Probably the biggest users of convention literature is the 0 . D.
Jennings Company, Chicago, who have a large office force and a
tremenduous correspondence. They are inserting convention liter­
ature in all their letters and mail matter.
W e could go on and name other companies who are helping and
all of them deserve full credit. The traveling salesmen also are
doing good work. These boys are putting in good licks for the
convention as they naturally want to meet their friends there.
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