Automatic Age

THE AUTOMATIC AGE
V ol. I
CHICAGO, M ARCH , 1925
No, 8
Ho! For the Convention
When this issue of TH E A U T O M A T IC A G E reaches the
hands of the vending machine operators from Canada to
the Gulf of Mexico, from the Atlantic to the Pacific that
imll be the signed to start packing your grip, put a trusted
assistant in charge of your route, make your reservations,
and get ready to take a train, for the great city of Chicago
where the vending machine trade, the manufacturers, oper­
ators, capitalists, and inventors wUl gather in the most
gigantic conclave of its kind that was ever called together.
From the letters that flow in, from the conversations with
traveling salesmen, and from the communications from
manufacturers this convention and exposition is going to
far exceed the wildest hopes of its progenitors.
During the past six months there Juts been a quiet but
powerful organization o f boosters built up who have set
about determined to make this convention a howling suc­
cess.
In the ramifications of the card index system of THE
A U T O M A T IC
AGE
office there is found the surprising
total of 300 men who )mvc been working up this convention
and exposition.
There are fifty exhibitors, each one to ha.ve
an average of tivo men at the Exposition.
200 pledged operators working.
There are over
Thi-s small army has been
going about its duties quietly but eagerly planning a rous­
ing get-together in this interesting trade that will send- it
forward on its march to greater progress unth tremendous
impetus.
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