Automatic Age

Issue: 1930 January

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fo ' ° Gac^ se&rcher credit was due:
° T ^ WaS C0'°P erative movement,
e business man who refuses to
thing8toth‘f°
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UP S° m€‘ a
h to his r competitors,
is making
trarf3. G ^°mpetition is the life o f
the e * ^ ° aus®
helps to advertise
sti Pf rticuIar Products involved and
moTU a^es business, which is shared
dustry°r ^655S
everyone *n the in-
q CO-OPERATION
prevents mono­
Where every one in an industry
a free lance, it is a case o f “ every
t?an ^or himself and the devil take
ne hindermost.”
Such
insiness
® ws cause one to trample on a
ea er member, and very often the
s r°nger, if not the most unscrupul­
ous, gains control; whereas CO-OP-
ATION
would curb unethical
f Iactices and give aid to the weaker
brother.
id
I wonder if the chain stores would
av« gained such headway if the in­
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dependent small store had organized
in time and followed a plan o f CO­
O PE RA TIO N that would have in­
cluded the principles on which the
success o f the chain store is based.
CO-O PERATION standardizes me­
thods o f doing business, brings out
new ideas, regulates errors and old
methods to the ash heap. It tends to
progress and never to retrogression:
in fact it is coupled up with Life,
which is the law o f progress.
CO-OPERATION is badly needed
today in the vending machine indus­
try. There are problems that cannot
be mastered by anyone alone: and the
longer these problems remain un­
solved the harder it will be to over­
come them. I have already stated
that organization is C O -O P E R A ­
TION . Then let every operator and
manufacturer join their respective
associations and lend their moral
support at least in putting over a
constructive programme that shall
bring lasting benefits.
TH E SH O W OF SHOW S
Sherman Hotel, Chicago, Feb. 24 to 27, 1930
Manufacturers when making reservations fo r their exhibits are
mentioning they will show many new and interesting machines.
There will be Bru-sho-matics, Coin-o-matics and Automatics
galore, and an endless variety o f service, amusement, merchandise,
coin machines, accessories and merchandise displays.
Don’t
miss the one event in the year.
The Sherman Hotel will take care o f all who want to come.
Reservations to date indicate quite an increase over last year.
Chicago is supporting us wonderfully; twenty Chicago firms have
already arranged to exhibit. Firms from twenty states and the Do­
minion o f Canada, will have displays.
The competition fo r the silver cup to be given this year by the
Association, will bring out many beautiful and attractive exhibits.
F. E. Turner, Sec.-Treas.
COIN M ACHINE O P E R A T O R S A S S ’N.
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The Automatic Age
T H E N A T IO N A L M A G A ZIN E OF T H E V E N D IN G M ACH IN E
_____________________________ IN D U ST R Y _____________________________
Covering Automatic Machines and Coin-Controlled Devices o f
Every Description
Published Monthly by TH E
L IG H T N E R
O. C. L IG H TN E R , President
P U B LISH IN G
CORP.
W A L T E R HURD, Managing Editor
Official Organ: National Vending Maohine Manufacturers’ A ssociation
Official Organ: Coin Machine Operators’ Ass'n of America
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We A re Open to Conviction About Awards
A manufacturer writes us remarking that if we are going to give
a cup this year for the best machine in the show, he is surely going
to get it. No doubt several other manufacturers feel the same way!
We are going to give a cup this year for the best machine at the
show and one for the best and cleanest operator in the country.
However, those may be the last cups we give. Our object in start­
ing this custom several years ago was to encourage the manufac­
turers to do their best and to bestow on them a signal of recognition
for their efforts. Naturally, all manufacturers feel that their ma­
chine is the best, and admittedly a number would have legitimate
grounds for such a claim. The decision has been left to a vote of
the operators, cognizance taken only of ballots that were signed in
the handwriting of known operators, and each year the cup went
to the machine which got the overwhelming number of votes. At no
time was the vote even close. No doubt the machines receiving
the award were very clever ideas.
There has been disappointment registered, however, on the part
of other manufacturers, the most meritorious of which was the fact
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