Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-06-20 | Page 4 | Are You Honest?-This Pile of Slugs Represents $2,500 Lost in One Day by a Slot Machine Firm

Are You i- i in Honest n of Slugs 2500 Lost In D Dy y By a aSI Slot t Machine Machin Firm t e r j I 4 RL b C ee ic 4 t si J t ti V Li 6 L 4 9 Heres Here's exhibit A flu submitted m ted b by machine men m n in irs the their charge that people are not honest hones The stack sta k represents 2500 losses taken in one day by on one vending ending v machine company each piece in the stack having been bee II used instead of ofa a dime I The 2500 was more than 6 63 per rent cent of that particular day d days day's ys y's I income The ruler in the background is 15 36 Inches long I Nearly 60 per er cent of the patrons of vending sending machines operated throughout the United States b bone by byOne one Ofle firm are petty thieves th the president of ot the firm says Others report larger or smaller smalle percentages with an average around 50 per Jer cent depending no noon not noton noton on the type of merchandise but bu buthe the efficacy of ot the machines And such ingenuity as these thes patrons had A collection coll coli o ot of slugs representing re re losses of thou thou- thousands thousands thousands sands of ot dollars may be found a athe at atthe atthe the offices of any vending endIng machIne company There will be be found foum street car tokens beer checks o of bygone days buttons pieces of tl tin paper clips valueless foreign I coins coils colls of wire wire all all evidence of ingenuity put into the pilfering of ot a a. nickel dime or quarter proc prod prod-