Automatic Age

CLUB RAISES FUNB WITH
VENDING MACHINES
Good publicity for the coin
machine industry is not lacking.
In Springfield, Illinois, the Amer­
ican Business Club’s campaign
to aid crippled children by rais­
ing funds through the penny
gum vending machines, has al­
ready purchased a movie ma­
chine for the children’s enjoy­
ment.
Pictures and stories appeared
in all of the local newspapers,
and smaller items about the
achievement have been carried
by the wire services to news­
papers all over the country.
The plan of the American
Business Club to raise funds
through penny gum machines
was exclusively reported in the
March, 1942 issue of Automatic
Age. The plan went into effect
early in February, and the suc­
cess of the plan is indicated by
the substantial purchase of the
movie equipment.
When its initial project is
having to do with children’s
care where there is a need and
funds are not available.
The gum vending machines
have been placed in office build­
ings, factories, departm ent
stores, hotels, taverns, filling sta­
tions, and other places of busi­
ness throughout Springfield.
Coin machines are aiding the
crippled children of Springfield.
The machines— more than 200 of
them, are on the job collecting
pennies every hour of the day
and night for the kids who didn’t
C A S H P A ID
for Slots, Music, Cigarette, or
Arcade Machines.
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Sheriff H arry Eilson is shown placing a penny in one o f S pringfield's ABC gum machines.
Scene above is in the Sheriff's office where one o f the machines has been located. G rouped
around the Sheriff are other members of the Am erican Business C lub.
completed, the Club will use the
proceeds from the vending
machines to help other groups
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New York City
AUTOMATIC AGE
get a break. Who says that the
machine is without a soul?
The members of the Ameri­
can Business Club, are a group of
civic minded business men and
public officials that devote their
entire service program to the
welfare of crippled children.
They found coin machines to be
the answer to their money-rais­
ing problems. So the Club en­
listed these ideal silent partners
— coin machines— to aid in a
great cause.
The ABC group made an ex-
May-June, 1942
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