Automatic Age

Issue: 1942 February

FOR SALE— SECOND HAND
TAB AN D ST IC K GUM M A C H IN ES
W r ig le y Tab 4 column .......................$3.75
W r ig le y T ab 5 column ....................... 4.50
Trim ount Tab 1 column ..................... 2.75
Silver comet fu ll stick ....................... 2.50
H echt Nielsen 1322 Congress. Chi­
cago, 111.
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SCALES GOOD AS N E W
K irk Guesser .........................................$80.00
K irk Horoscope .................................. 65.00
Pioneer Guesser ......... ......................... 40.00
Seca large m o d e l .................................. 25.00
Lincoln sm all model ......................... 18.00
H echt Nielsen, Chicago, 111.
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B A R G A IN S
Silver K in g Jr.........................................$
Penny K in g ...........................................
Vendex .......................................................
N orthw estern 5c ..................................
N orthw estern T ri-S electo r ............
P eerless 5 lb. g l o b e ...........................
lc H ersh ey Bar M achines ..............
1 & 2 Col. P ostage Stamp
M achines .................................. $5 and
Advance 1 column 5c Bar
24 and 60 bar c a p a c i t y ................
A ll perfect and clean.
H echt Nielsen, 1322 Congress,
cago, 111.
2.00
1.75
1.75
3.00
12.00
2.50
2.10
$10
3.50
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If You're N ot G e ttin g
ATTEN TION
As Much Business As
P h on o grap h O pe rato rs
Y o u 'd Like To H a v e
If you’re not doing all the business
you can handle, there’s something
wrong with your sales promotion—
and it’s our job to help you find
out what it is and help you correct
whatever is wrong.
We’re sales promotion and adver­
tising counsellors, with many years
of experience to back up our judg­
ment ; and we’d like to talk to you
about your sales problems.
You can write us at any time, lay
the facts before us, ask our advice,
and not be afraid we’ll send you a
bill ffir service.
That’s not the way we do business.
If, after investigating your prob­
lem, we decide there’s a place
where we can fit into your picture,
we submit our recommendations
and quote a fee.
But any preliminary investigation
you want made is at our expense,
without obligation to you.
Won’t you write us your problem?
CHARLES B ROTH & ASSOCIATES
C. of C. BId'g
6c EACH FOR
1942 USED RECORDS
S IIII* Y O U R R E C O R D S , any qu antity of
200 or more by M O T O R T R U C K .
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P A Y Y O U 6c path for all your used records
you ship to me In Rood condition, must not be
scratched and guaranteed against breakage.
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COLUMBIA
BRUNSWICK
VARSITY
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accept our check made payable to you for any
amount of records you ship. Also instruct them
to perm it Inspection of records upon delivery.
U N L E S S Y O U A C C E P T T H E S E C O N D IT IO N S
Y O U M U S T N O T S H IP .
ONLY SHIP 1941 USED RECORDS
IN GOOD CONDITION TO
GEO. J. REID,
2624 W. STATE STREET
MILWAUKEE. W IS.
Denver, Colorado
FOR SALE— SUPPLIES
S A N IT A R Y N A P K IN S — N A P K IN M A ­
chines — P rophylactic L atex — L atex
M achines.
H igh est
q u a lity ;
low est
prices. P ack ages for any machine.—
Sanitex Company, 14182 M eyers Road,
D etroit, M ichigan.
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Used Records
. . . I will pay spot cash for all your used
records in lots of 200 or more. 1941
Standard type only.
TWELVE MONTHS
Essential Inform ation
o f
We could not write a better “ad” telling why it is to YO U R
INTEREST to keep your subscription to Automatic Age in
force—than the following letter received from an Oklahoma
operator:
COIN W R A P P E R S — T U B U L A R lc , 5c,
10c and 25c; guaranteed heavy paper.
60c a thousand in 25,000 lots. 70c single
thousand. A ccurate Penny Coin Coun­
ters, heavy alum inum , $1.00. Jobbers
w rite for quotation.— H ech t Nielsen,
1322 C ongress St., Chicago, 111.
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I am enclosing $i.oo to cover subscription to Automatic Age for the
coming year.
I am an operator of a chain of vending machines and like to keep up
with the latest, but had let my subscription expire.—C. H. I.
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ers. You can now get Decalcom ania
T ra n sfers in sm all quantities. An a t­
tractive nam e plate Insures w ide ad ver­
tisin g publicity at low cost. A lso serves
as a perm anent identification. Sam ples
on request. Sideline salesm en w anted.
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% S U P E R IO R B R A N D
IN B O X E S A N D B U L K
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\ inch, and 1 inch ball gum . H echt
Nielsen, Chicago, 111.
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attach their protest and get re­
lief.
The following excerpts from
such a court order are the heart
of all vending machine opera­
tors’ pleas against unfair city
and state taxes:
“It is further shown that the
defendant sells through these
machines, gum, cigarettes, can­
dies and nuts of all kinds; and
this court holds that the de­
fendant is a merchant doing a
LEGITIMATE business; and
any license collected from him
must be neither CONFISCA­
TORY nor DISCRIMINATORY.
It is, therefore, necessary for
this court to decide whether or
not the ordinance does discrim­
inate A G A IN S T THE D E ­
FENDANT by reason of his
METHODS OF DOING BUSI­
NESS, and also if this license
tax is confiscatory.
“If the defendant was re­
quired to pay the license tax,
as provided by the ordinance
under consideration by the court
in this case, then it would result,
as the court holds, IN A CON­
FISCATION OF HIS PROP­
ER TY , A N D W O U LD BE
SUCH A BURDEN ON HIS
BUSINESS AS TO DESTROY
IT. This sort of a license tax is
not permitted by the laws of
this State as set out in a long
line of opinions by the Court of
Appeals of this State.
“For these reasons the court
holds the ordinance in question
is void and unenforceable by
reason of the fact that it is con­
fiscatory and will suppress a
legitimate business.
«
“The defendant is a merchant
selling candies, cigarettes, nuts,
etc., and the ordinance in ques­
tion IS AN ATTEMPT ON
THE PART OF THE CITY TO
LEVY A LICENSE TAX ON
HIS METHOD OF SELLING
MERCHANDISE, AS DISTIN­
G U I S H E D FRO M OTH ER
METHODS.
“This court holds this ordi­
nance is an attempt to classify
by reason of the method of do­
HERE’S TO THE WURLITZER VICTORY MODEL 950
The staff of the Guarantee Distributing Co., Indianapolis, drank a toast to the new Victory
Model 950. National Wurlitzer Days broke all attendance records in Indianapolis and as Paul
Jock, president (at the right), stated, "If you could have totaled all the fine things said about
the Victory Model 950, I'm sure they would have surpassed any year in the past, too. Our cus­
tomers certainly went for the Victory Model 950 and the three new Wurlitzer Speakers, too.
We're counting on an outstanding year within the limitations that National Defense imposes on
our industry."
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ing business and for that reason
the ordinance is void and unen­
forceable.”
SERVICE
When business is booming and
everything is rosy, there is a
tendency for salespeople to neg­
lect the little services and at­
tentions concerning the use of
their product. I expect a sales­
man to act as a tracer and ex­
pediter of our orders to his com­
pany. These services often mean
much in their effect on the usu­
ally thin profit margin in our
business. You may be sure that
the salesman who gives us the
best attention, even when he
cannot sell us a bill of goods
when we want it, is the fellow
who gets our first consideration
when the buyers’ market re­
turns.—Philip H. Powers, vice­
president of the West Penn
Power Company, in Sales Log.
REPUTATION
The man who builds and the
man who buys are both bene­
ficiaries of a good reputation.
To the one it is a continuous
spur and an incentive — to the
other the strongest of all guar­
antees that what he buys is
worthy.
We sometimes speak of win­
ning reputation as though that
were the final goal. The truth is
contrary to this. Reputation is
a reward, to be sure, but it is
really the beginning, not the
end of endeavor. It should not
be the signal for a let-down, but
rather, a reminder that the
standards which won recogni­
tion can never again be lowered.
From him who gives much—
much is forever expected.
Reputation is never complete­
ly earned — it is always being
earned. It is a reward—but in
a much more profound sense it
is a continuing responsibility.—
Alvan Macauley, chairman of
the Packard Motor Car Com­
pany.

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