Automatic Age

Issue: 1926 January

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They usually have a fine workable model; one that will work
Pretty good until it gets into actual use. Occasionally there is one
that has genuine merit, that could serve the public honestly and
^gitimately, but it is being thrown away on a promotion scheme.
Since we have published the AU TOM ATIC AGE we have been
absolutely astonished at the number of acquaintances who have
actually invested or seriously considered investing in these enter­
prises.
Apparently some of the promoters have made a big
cleanup. W e find them in every walk of life, but not one of them
has found his investment to be worth a Lincoln penny. And yet
these investors were thoroughly sold, they could show you how
these machines ought to make them independent. On paper, yes!
We do not know anything more convincing on paper than vending
^achine statistics. When it comes to putting it in practice there
ls nothing about the vending machine business that pays a profit
except experience and hard work.
It Is Our Prediction
^nd Confident Belief
t h a t the big e x p o s it io n to be held
ln connection With the convention o f th e o p e r a t o r s a n d m a n u fa c ­
turers of coin controlled machines will be the t u r n in g p o in t in this
lndustry. Its importance cannot be over estimated. We have the
annual shows of the automobile industry and the radio industry.
Twenty years ago the automobile was in its infancy; and it was
Neatly stimulated by the annual New York and Chicago shows.
have heard automobile men say that it was the rivalry created
ky these shows that stimulated the manufacturers to their utmost
activity. Each year they planned ahead to bring out something
new at the shows. And each year the big dealers of the country
l°°ked forward to attending either the New York or Chicago show
see the. latest in automobiles. They say that it was this stimulus
that perfected the automobile in less time than any invention cre­
ated by the hands of man.
There was scarcely a radio set in existence five years ago; and
when the annual shows began to be held a tremenduous impetus
was given the radio trade. The manufacturers were put on edge
t° show the best they had. They knew they could not get away
^ t h any old stuff.
We predict the coin-controlled machine business will go through
same experience. The trade needs the inspiration and interest;
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and the annual show will bring together the best minds, the finest
ideas, and will find adequate capital and capable managers in both
the manufacturing and operating ends.
It will be impossible for anyone to come to this convention and
not go home inspired and pepped up with new enthusiasm and new
ideas. Twenty years from now the pioneers in this movement will
be honored in the trade. It will mark an epoch in the history of
the industry, and the march of events henceforth will be reckoned
from the year of the first convention and exposition in 1926.
Ruling of Illinois
Attorney General
Mills to Build $500,000
Plant
A gambling device was described
by Attorney General Carlstrom, o f
Illinois,
as
“ something tangible,
adapted and designed fo r the purpose
o f playing a game o f chance fo r
m oney.”
“ A m ong some o f the devices,” the
attorney general said, “ which have
been held to be within the term ‘gam­
bling device’ as used in the statutes
o f different states are: Crackles,
cnap tables, dice, dice and chips used
in a game o f craps, equality French
pool, keno, lottery, loto, pack o f cards,
pico, punchboard, rondo, shuffleboard,
six-wheel, stock clock, tables used fo r
playing pool and billiards, tables with
poker chips and cards used fo r gam­
bling, tenpin alley and wheel o f fo r ­
tune.
“ A slot machine where one who
plays it stands to win or lose .money,
trade or trade checks by hazard or
chance is a gambling device.”
The attorney general also quoted
the statutes which define a gambling
device as "every clock, tape machine,
slot machine or other machine or de­
vice fo r the reception o f money on
chance, or upon the action o f which
money is staked, hazarded, bet, won
or lost.”
The Mills N ovelty Company, now
at 221 South Green street, Chicago,
has bought the fou r story factory and
some equipment at 4110 Fullerton,
lot 575x588, from the Lyon Music
Company fo r a reported $625,000.
The new owner will erect a $500,00
fou r story addition to be used partly
fo r
administration purposes and
partly fo r .manufacturing.
John A. Miller, 118 N. M onroe St.,
Dearborn, Mich., has sold his route
in Dearborn, and says he is looking
fo r a new location.
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California After
Lease Promoters
La Verne, Calif. — Upon the
strength o f very explicit information
from the state corporation commis­
sioner’s office to A. V. Storer, o f the
Pomona Valley Merchants’ Credit
Association, a warning is issued to
residents o f this district regarding
the (jlaims and offerings o f sales
agents and promoters with various
kinds o f slot machines and recepta­
cles fo r the distribution o f sand­
wiches, cooked foods, postage stamps,
etc.
Mr. Storer advises all prospective
investors in these lease schemes to
telephone his office before paying
over any money.
Incorporated
Central Vending Machine Sales
Company, Shawnee, Kenneth Kienzle,
Mrs. Carol E. Rounti'ee, all o f Shaw­
nee, Okla., capital $1,000.
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