COIN
MACHINE
IlEVIEW
6
FOR
SEf>TEM.ER.
1943
money but a certain amount of prestige
with a legitimate operator in whose terri-
tory this incident occurred.
"The principle of too sinall a down
payment is directly the cause of this evil
together with the fact that the fly-by-night
operator should not have been sold equip-
ment in the first place. If distributors will
3tick to a strict policy of bigger down
payments this, in itself, will eliminate the
casual would-be operator for with a sub-
stantial down payment made on equipment
an operator feels he has enough invested
to make it necessary that he carry through.
The majority of legitimate operators know
this and have longed for the day when
distributors realize it is the best cure for
this evil.
"Many sales of equipment can now
either be converted into a cash sale or
at least a sale with a substantial down
payment if we, as salesmen, would only
ask for it. But we have in the past talked
easy time payments until some of our cus-
tomers are of the opinion we sell on terms
only.
.
"Here is a little story that illustrates our
point: In the deep South Negroes work
on large plantations for the land owner
as tenant farmers. During the year the
land owner advances groceries, tools, cloth-
ing and medicine from his own commissary
under an agreement whereby the Negro
reimburses the land owner when the crop
is marketed. Usually the tenant farmer
finds the sale price of the crop insufficient
to cover his indebtedness and must re-
main on the farm another year in an effort
to get out of debt. Such a thing hap-
pened to Mose b ut one year the land own-
er's bookkeeping system sprung a leak
and Mr. Jones found he owed Mose nine
dollars after the crop was sold. A day
later Jones saw Mose lugging a big sack
01£ potatoes out of a downtown store and
questioned him as to why, after all these
years of selling him groceries on credit,
he should go downtown and buy a sack
of potatoes for cash from a competitor.
'Why, Mr. Jones,' says Mose, 'I didn't
know you would sell for cash!'"
And so the opinions run- some in favor
of such a system--some opposed to it-
but none finding any real fault or sug-
gesting any improvements. Discussions will
continue in future issues and if you have
not already expressed yourself we shall be
happy to have your comments. All contribu-
tions will be prin ted anonymously unless
otherwise requested.
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He had parked the car at the side of the
road, but still she wanted to k now how far
he was going to go.
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in comparison with use of the set of tables
ordinarily furnished for figuring payroll
deductions, and that Deduct·O-Graph use
resulted in not only much greater speed
but positive accuracy as against slow, la-
borious figuring and a high percentage of
errors for the tabular method.
When asked regarding cost of the De-
. duct-O-Graph, Mr. May said, "You can-
not buy them at any price but the George
S. May Co. is giving them without charge
to any firm requesting them on a business
letterhead. The original print . order was
for 250,000 units but requests already in
sight will exhaust this first supply." Orders
should be addressed to the firm at 2600
North Shore Ave., Chicago.
New Chart Is Free
Not Gambling Devices
CHICAGO-Requests by the \ thousands
from industrial executives and payroll
desks are pouring into the George S. May
Co., Business Engineers, for that firm's
new device, called the "Deduct·O-Graph",
which automatically shows the proper pay-
roll tax deduction for any employee when
proper settings are made as to marital
status, wage range and pay period, George
S. May, President, announced recently.
Giving further particulars, May stated
that his engineers had started work on the
Deduct-O·Graph idea the moment deduc·
tion tables under the new pay-as-you-go
tax law were available from the Treasury
Department, and that the Treasury Depart-
ment has been responsible for the first
business requests for the device. He said
that before making any general announce-
ments regarding the Deduct-O-Graph, the
device had been tested by payroll officials
NEWARK-Judge Flannagan of Com-
mon Pleas has placed a new interpretation
on the New Jersey statutes in reference
to coin-operated machines being classified
as gambling devices.
Recently officers arrested a location owner
for possessing a slot machine and at the
same time attempted to seize an electrically
operated baseball game also on the prem-
ises. Location owner obtained a restraint
order.
Judge Flannagan ruled that the mere
presence of the machine in an establish·
ment did not make it a gambling device
any more so than a peanut vending ma-
chine upon which two individ uals 'c ould
wager a bet on the number of peanu ts to
be vended. He held that the insertion of a
coin by a customer represented a free act
on the customer's part and not an act of
gambling for no chance of getting his
money back or a sum of money back was
apparent and the individual invested his
coin for amusement only.
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