Automatic Age

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9
The Vending Machine
Industry Is Beset with
natural enemies, and that is the
main reason why those in it should organize for protection.
For
instance, we have just learned that the Restaurant Owners’ Asso­
ciation has started out to put the pie and sandwich vending
machines out of business through taxing them to death.
Let it
be remembered that there are a lot of restaurant owners and as a
group they have considerable political influence.
It behooves the manufacturers, whether they make sandwich
and pie vending machines or not, to get together to offset this influ­
ence, because the chances are that any ordinance passed taxing one
machine will most likely include all of them.
W e Are Very
Much Pleased
w'ith the very hearty response that has come
from the trade in all its branches. W e are convinced already that
our judgment was right in assuming there was a genuine need for
a magazine to represent the great automatic industry. W e feel, as
many other close observers feel, that the coin controlled machines
are in their infancy and that almost unbelievable strides are going
to be made in the next few years. W e predict that before long we
will see coin controlled machines vending many staple commodities
in the public places of the country, many of which will be built and
operated on a gigantic, and heretofore unattempted scale. W e
know at this writing of some undertakings that are under way and
if these machines are perfected so as to be practical they are going
to make a tremendous hit throughout the country.
It is going to be our earnest desire to take our place in this field
and fill it completely. W e want to get out a publication that will
be a credit to the industry and the pride o f every one in it. Last
month we printed 32 pages. This month business has justified an
increase to 44 pages. W e want to keep going up, and if the trade
will respond during the coming months as it has [responded since
the initial issue we can assure the vending machine industry that
it will be represented by a publication that will compare favorably
with the best in the country.
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