Automatic Age

'Bally" engineers and workers are proving daily that their skill— developed in peace-time pro­
duction of coin-operated games and venders—is a valuable asset to America in time of war. And
"Bally's" performance in war production is a forecast of "Bally’s” performance in the victorious
future. Lion Manufacturing Corporation, Chicago, manufacturers of “Bally” games and venders.
Pinball Games Come Back
The Passaic (N. J.) Herald
News recently published an ed­
itorial observation, and the fol­
lowing parts of its comments
are interesting to the trade for
its realistic approach to the sit­
uation :
The Court of Errors and A p ­
peals having reversed a Sup­
reme Court decision which held
pinball games to be gambling
devices, you may expect to see
these nickle-grabbers in corner
stores and bars once more.
Still on the books is a Pas­
saic ordinance which provides
for a license fee of $25 a year
for each machine operated in
this city, so there will be spirit­
ed competition among the a­
musement device operators for
the best-paying locations.
Passaic’s Director of Public
Safety and Bergen’s prosecutor
have announced that there can
be no free play offers, no high
score prizes and no pay-offs.
Usually these inducements
are offered “ under the counter”
by storekeepers because who
would feed nickles into a slot
machine all afternoon with no
hope of winning a prize? More
often the players, u s u a l l y
friends, play these p i n b a l l
games for winner-take-all side
bets, with which the storekeep­
ers have nothing to do.
These devices are in them­
selves harmless unless they are
set up on school neighborhoods
with a pay-off inducement for
children.
W e wonder if the Passaic
commissioners are not passing
up an opportunity for easily-
made revenue by letting the
pinball license fee stand at $25
a year. That figures out at sev­
en cents a day from each ma­
chine, less than the revenue
from two fast games.
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Evans Buys Paces Races
The consummation of an im­
portant deal was announced in
Chicago with the purchase of
a 1 1 manufacturing rights to
Paces Races by H. C. Evans &
Company, a leading manufac­
turer of amusement machines.
A j o i n t announcement was
made by R. W . Hood, president
of the Evans company, and E.
W . Pace of the Pace Manufac­
turing Co. Involved in the sale
are the transfer of all patents
and copyright patents, tools,
dies, jigs, patterns, and other
real properties. Henceforth, H.
C. Evans & Company will have
the exclusive rights to manu­
facture Paces Races and its
parts.
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Kind Landlord
“ I’m going to r a i s e your
rent.”
“ That’s nice, I couldn’t raise
it.”
AUTOMATIC AGE
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