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The Industry is now entering another summer and
there is something different just ahead in 1950. It
is the annual convention for the Industry planned
a nd sponsored by the Coin Machine Institute.
In addition to the important business factors in
the convention. there is much interest attached to the
new June date. It is a much advertised breaking
away from the long record of the past in holding the
national coin machine conventions in the dead of
winter-and since the conventions were held in
Chicago. winter meant winter.
Coin Machine Institute carries on with the heritage
of Coin Machine Industries. InC., an organization that
held a long record for sponsoring annual conven-
tions with great success.
Polls taken among operators are said to have
shown that there :is a real desire to try 'lhe June date
for conventions. The idea has been debated for
years. especially when operators faced the cold
wintry winds of the Windy City. CMI has definitely
tied the vacation idea into its convention plans and
has made entertainment plans for women and chil-
dren. That means. as never before. that the appeal
this year will be to bring the whole family along.
It has long been said that an operator can learn
much by taking trips into other territories to observe
what other operators do. This idea can be combined
with the V'acation idea that ties in with the CMI con-
vention-vacation theme.
Since weather has long been a topic in connection
with the annual conventions. it might be well to
mention that June is usually an ideal summer month
in the Windy City.
The CMI show also breaks with tradition and goes
to the Stevens Hotel. The advantages of this hotel
and its gigantic -a nd modem exhibit hall are being
appropriately stressed by the organization. The ~a-
REVIEW COMMENTS
( Continu ed front Page 7)
it. A mild winter then came along-till
April changed the picture entirely.
• T here is someth ing in many of the ad·
vertisements being currently published by
Bell-O-Matic Corp. that deserve more than
passing consideration. Grant Shay also de-
serves much credit. T he advertisements have
high quality in design from a professional
advertising standpoint and th en they have a
message that rings wi th humanity.
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cilities for really seeing convention exhibits are
there.
CMI announces there will be more exhibit Hoor
s pace than ever at a coin machine convention. Also.
that more new equipment will hence be shown and
more new exhibitors. The work of CMI in getting :new
firms in the manufacturing field to show their prod-
ucts will reveal that the Industry :is still growing. and
operators will also get to see what :is really :new.
The list of exhibitors for the June convent~on
speaks for itself and assures a well-rounded conven-
tion and a complete variety of coin machines and
equipment. The officers and committees of CMI have
shown much originality in planning a convention of
real interest to the operator.
- CMI aggressiveness has been shown in enlisting
exhibitors of music. of shuffleboard and other equip-
ment that promises much for the operator to see. This
variety in display comes at a time when the Industry
needs to feel the full inspiration of the fact that there
is still expansion and growth taking place.
Coming late in June. there is also another advan-
tage to operators in attending the convention. It
is close to July and the turning point of the year. and
hence an opportune time to see new equipment.
gather new ideas and begin making plans for the
second half of the year.
Up to the present the general husiness picture of
the nation promised a favorable background for
the convention. The verdict of financial leaders
seems definite that business :is much more optimistic
than a year ago. and that holds promise during the
balance of the year for operators.
Dave Gottlieb. chairman of the CMI show com-
mittee. and other leaders in the convention plans.
know conventions and they have planned 'l he best.
Operators. come to the June Show.
• The program outlined by National
Automatic Merchandising Assn. to enlist
the automatic vending trade in Community
Chest drives seems to be a realization of
the ideal in public relations that has long
been sought. The cause is nll t only local
bu t national in the general appeals and it
also has so many practical phases. T he ob-
jectives and the practical ways in which
operators can take part means that not a
vending machine operator in the country
should fail to enroll.
• The Washington Music Guild bulletin
says that every automatic phonograph
should carry a recording of l uke Box
Annie, says it can be a successor to Music,
Music, Music. "It advertises our business,"
the bulletin adds, "and every time a nickel
is put into the slot we get a commercial."
The music trade can take real pride in the
fact that such records are comi ng onto the
market and that a first one of th e type is
. being followed by other good ones. It's a
form of boost for automatic phonograp hs ..
th at operators themselves could not have
financed in the first place, but now is avail-
able for purchase in the regular buying of
records for machines. If the popular appeal
and quality holds up, like these two records,
music operators can be thrice happy.
Mr. Employer:
Why do you not give your em-
ployees the consideration they de-
serve, since it costs you nothing?
The 1% State Unemployme nt deduction
that yo u ta ke from t heir sala ries and
send to t he Sta te does not buy them
as much u nemployment Disability Bene-
fit as you ca n obtain by purchasinll a
regular insurance pla n w ith a Private
Insura n ce Carrie r.
This is nOt sa les tal k, but a fact-since
the la w provides tha t no private insu r·
ance compa ny pla n co mplies w ith the
la~ unless it gives better p rotection t han
the sta te tit the same cost.
The Association and G rou p I nsuran ce
Bureau w ill 1I1adly assist you to m ake
the chanlle over wit h out charlie by tele-
phonin& t hem o r droppioll them a nOte
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