Coin Machine Journal
Issue: 1933 April - Page 67
April, 1933
CIGARETTE
By A. B. MacDONNELL
.
Secretary, C alifornia Cigarette V ending M achine Operators’ Assn.
Los Angeles, C a lif.
• We thank you for your letter of
April 7, in which you advise us of
your department called “The Asso
ciation Calendar.” We will be only
too glad to forward you any items of
news that may come up from time to
time in our association.
You no doubt have been informed
of the case of the City of Los Angeles
versus the Rowe Vending Machine
Company, which is now pending in
the Federal courts and which is to
come to trial on June 2 7 of this year.
It is my thought that if this case goes
against the Rowe Vending Machine
Company it will have a direct bearing
on every city and every kind of ma
chine, be it.cigarette or otherwise, in
the entire United States; therefore,
it is my belief that a great number of
operators will be only too glad to
assist in defraying expenses in the
fighting of this Federal case. You can
do us a great favor by inserting in
your magazine an article to this effect,
calling on all operators to donate what
they see fit, and that they may mail
their checks to the secretary of this
association at 1340 South Flower
Street, Los Angeles.
If you are not familiar with this
case I might say that in 1928 the
W. C. T. U. were very active in de
nouncing the cigarette machines as a
menace to our youth. They were suc
cessful in getting the Los Angeles
city council to pass a law making the
sale of cigarettes through vending ma
chines illegal. The Rowe Vending
Machine Company carried this to the
Federal Court and obtained an in
junction against the City of Los An
geles from interfering With their ma
chines until this case was tried in
court. Now you can readily see what
effect this would have with the Na
tional W. C. T. U. and the vending
machine business throughout the
65
THE COIN M A C H I N E J O U R N A L
country. The California Vending Ma
chine Operators Association realizes
the importance of this case and we feel
that it is not fair to allow the Rowe
Vending Machine Company to shoul
der the whole burden and expense of
this case. We have gone so far as to
assess our own members 50c per ma
chine, and we intend to write to every
operator throughout the United
States, soliciting their financial aid.
Knowing the prestige which your
journal holds in the vending machine
world we will greatly apreciate any
assistance or suggestions that you may
be able to offer.
W h o ’s W h o in C o in
M a c h in e s
Postmasters throughout the coun
try are urging mail users to exercise
care in addressing mail. In a recent
bulletin room and proper street num
bers were stressed for prompt delivery
of mail.
Quoting from the bulletin we pre
sent the startling fact that names are
often duplicated on a street car or in
a building causing delay and embar
rassing situations because of inade
quate addresses:
Is a room number necessary to the
delivery of your mail?
Read the following and judge for
yourself:
•
At One (1) North La Salle Street,
there are 10 Andersons; 6 Campbells,
and 24 Smiths, with numerous other
repetitions. In the First National
Bank Building, there are 9 Ander
sons; 7 Browns; 5 Clarks; 5 Davis’,
and 54 other names repeated from 2
to 8 times.
This situation is repeated in build
ings throughout the business district.
Enhanced ■ Scans © ■ The International . Arcade Museum
There are 5 carriers at One (1)
North La Salle Street and 7 at the
First National Bank Building, each
carrier serving a different part of these
buildings. If you were distributing
the mail, to which carrier would you
first give a letter bearing one of these
names without a room number? If
one of the regular carriers were sick
or on vacation, can you picture the
difficulty of the substitute in attempt
ing delivery of mail in either of these
buildings not addressed to room num
ber? Do you see what it means to
YOU, to us, and to your correspond
ents when your mail is NOT ad
dressed to a room number?
If your complete street and number
address and room number, PROP
ERLY ARRANGED, appears on
your letter heads and envelope return
cards, you are doing all you can do
to enable your correspondents to ad
dress you properly, but if this infor
mation does not appear upon your
letter heads, will you please include it
in future orders for stationery, so that
we may make prompt delivery of all
your mail?
In the city of Chicago for instance,
there are two James Atkinsons, both
operators, neither has ever seen the
other. There are two Jimmy Johnsons.
Just these two examples are enough
to show the necessity for accuracy in
addressing mail.
Here is latest penny cigarette vendor an
nounced by Advance Machine Co. Machine
supplies properly humidified smokes and is
equipped with well known advance
mechanism.
http://cmj.arcade-museum.com/
CIGARETTE
By A. B. MacDONNELL
.
Secretary, C alifornia Cigarette V ending M achine Operators’ Assn.
Los Angeles, C a lif.
• We thank you for your letter of
April 7, in which you advise us of
your department called “The Asso
ciation Calendar.” We will be only
too glad to forward you any items of
news that may come up from time to
time in our association.
You no doubt have been informed
of the case of the City of Los Angeles
versus the Rowe Vending Machine
Company, which is now pending in
the Federal courts and which is to
come to trial on June 2 7 of this year.
It is my thought that if this case goes
against the Rowe Vending Machine
Company it will have a direct bearing
on every city and every kind of ma
chine, be it.cigarette or otherwise, in
the entire United States; therefore,
it is my belief that a great number of
operators will be only too glad to
assist in defraying expenses in the
fighting of this Federal case. You can
do us a great favor by inserting in
your magazine an article to this effect,
calling on all operators to donate what
they see fit, and that they may mail
their checks to the secretary of this
association at 1340 South Flower
Street, Los Angeles.
If you are not familiar with this
case I might say that in 1928 the
W. C. T. U. were very active in de
nouncing the cigarette machines as a
menace to our youth. They were suc
cessful in getting the Los Angeles
city council to pass a law making the
sale of cigarettes through vending ma
chines illegal. The Rowe Vending
Machine Company carried this to the
Federal Court and obtained an in
junction against the City of Los An
geles from interfering With their ma
chines until this case was tried in
court. Now you can readily see what
effect this would have with the Na
tional W. C. T. U. and the vending
machine business throughout the
65
THE COIN M A C H I N E J O U R N A L
country. The California Vending Ma
chine Operators Association realizes
the importance of this case and we feel
that it is not fair to allow the Rowe
Vending Machine Company to shoul
der the whole burden and expense of
this case. We have gone so far as to
assess our own members 50c per ma
chine, and we intend to write to every
operator throughout the United
States, soliciting their financial aid.
Knowing the prestige which your
journal holds in the vending machine
world we will greatly apreciate any
assistance or suggestions that you may
be able to offer.
W h o ’s W h o in C o in
M a c h in e s
Postmasters throughout the coun
try are urging mail users to exercise
care in addressing mail. In a recent
bulletin room and proper street num
bers were stressed for prompt delivery
of mail.
Quoting from the bulletin we pre
sent the startling fact that names are
often duplicated on a street car or in
a building causing delay and embar
rassing situations because of inade
quate addresses:
Is a room number necessary to the
delivery of your mail?
Read the following and judge for
yourself:
•
At One (1) North La Salle Street,
there are 10 Andersons; 6 Campbells,
and 24 Smiths, with numerous other
repetitions. In the First National
Bank Building, there are 9 Ander
sons; 7 Browns; 5 Clarks; 5 Davis’,
and 54 other names repeated from 2
to 8 times.
This situation is repeated in build
ings throughout the business district.
Enhanced ■ Scans © ■ The International . Arcade Museum
There are 5 carriers at One (1)
North La Salle Street and 7 at the
First National Bank Building, each
carrier serving a different part of these
buildings. If you were distributing
the mail, to which carrier would you
first give a letter bearing one of these
names without a room number? If
one of the regular carriers were sick
or on vacation, can you picture the
difficulty of the substitute in attempt
ing delivery of mail in either of these
buildings not addressed to room num
ber? Do you see what it means to
YOU, to us, and to your correspond
ents when your mail is NOT ad
dressed to a room number?
If your complete street and number
address and room number, PROP
ERLY ARRANGED, appears on
your letter heads and envelope return
cards, you are doing all you can do
to enable your correspondents to ad
dress you properly, but if this infor
mation does not appear upon your
letter heads, will you please include it
in future orders for stationery, so that
we may make prompt delivery of all
your mail?
In the city of Chicago for instance,
there are two James Atkinsons, both
operators, neither has ever seen the
other. There are two Jimmy Johnsons.
Just these two examples are enough
to show the necessity for accuracy in
addressing mail.
Here is latest penny cigarette vendor an
nounced by Advance Machine Co. Machine
supplies properly humidified smokes and is
equipped with well known advance
mechanism.
http://cmj.arcade-museum.com/
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