Automatic Age

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Y ou may raise your weeding point
to eleven or twelve cents a day and
proceed as before, or you can just
make it rule to move the ten lowest
machines that you have each month,
or more if you have time. This sys­
tem will build your route up effi­
ciently and steadily.
When an operator is installing a
new route he will probably use four
days o f his week fo r securing loca­
tions and installing machines and one
day fo r collections. As he gets his
machines out, collections will take
up more and more o f his time until
he finally will set aside one day fo r
getting new locations and shifting
machines and be busy collecting and
servicing the rest o f the week. Very
few operators find it advisable to
work on Saturday, unless it be in
their shop, as merchants are general­
ly busy and irritable and do not want
to be solicited or bothered with col­
lections.
The expansion o f your route will
depend entirely upon the amount o f
effort which you put into this day a
week looking fo r new locations. Re­
member, new locations are the life o f
the business. Keep your eyes open
fo r likely spots at all times. A loca­
tion a week brings your route to the
peak.
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Rubber Is Contained
In Chewing Gum, Say
University Scientists
There is nothing o f salvaged rub­
ber from discarded heels
or
worn
out inner tubes in gum one gets out
o f subway and other handily placed
vending machines, nevertheless
the
millions o f Americans who daily ex­
ercise their jaws on chewing gum are
putting a certain amount o f rubber
through the process o f mastication.
That was the word today from the
American Chemical Society Institu­
tion at Northwestern University.
“ Five per cent o f chewing gum,”
said Dr. W . L. Semon, an authority
on rubber, in an interview, “ is rub­
ber.” “ A wad, after chewing, weighs
only one-fourth o f what it did be­
fore. For in the mastication sugar,
dextrine and other ingredients are
dissolved.”
“ I f you ever get a slice that just
crumbled in your mouth, blame sci­
ence and oxygen,” said Dr. Sion.
“ For chemistry has not yet found a
good anti-oxidant which is non­
toxic,” he declared. “ When it does,
the life o f a slice o f gum may be ex­
tended fo r many more years.”
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My next article will deal with
some o f the growing pains and dis­
eases o f the industry. The vending
machine business is growing by
leaps and bounds. The operator is
being recognized as a legitimate bus­
iness man entitled to the same rights
and courtesy as any other man o f in­
dustry. Cer'ain detrimental forces
from within are staying our progress
and checking our recognition as a
clean modern business. W e must
purge our industry and cast these
mill stones from about our necks.
© International Arcade Museum
Discussing a more serious phase o f
science, Dr. Frank C. W hitmore, di­
rector o f the American Chemical So­
ciety Institute, and head o f the de­
partment o f chemistry at Northwest­
ern University, declared that Henry
Ford’s methods o f mass production
are now being applied to chemistry
in this country. As a result, he pre­
dicted that American chemical indus­
tries, which have long been behind
those o f European countries, are fast
mounting to the forem ost position o f
the world.
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