Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-22

''Read an article about Wen
dell WilIl<ie returning from
across and being met by about
40 members, who, i'm turn, each
demanded 81 signed by him.
IL would appreciate any help
on the subject, and II that 81
bill is wanted by MIR. Thayer,
1 would most certainly like TO
give IL 10 him"
Ok. here's what know about
the Short Snorters. When a
man flies across the ocean, he
becomes a Short Shorter. It's
something like the ancient cere-
monies still used when a person
crosses the Equator for the first
time.
AS / understand il. a new
member is accepted officially by
giving 81 TO each of two other
Short norters. They then
autograph another dollar, which
he keeps.
From then on. any Short
Shorter. when he meets another
member. asks TO see his credeh-
tials-that is, the autographed
buck. II a member is caught
without it, he has 10 pay 81 to
every member present.
Evidently. they caught Will
kie without his dollar, so he had
10 pay. For that same reason,
no doubt, Thayer might like 10
get his dollar back from you.
I'm somewhat i'm doubt as 60
when the Short Snorters
started. I've been told dates
ranging from 1927 to 1888 and
the latter may be correct--it
Is said that the air forces
originated the idea on the
flights between San Francisco
and Honolulu and IL Is also said
that Bill Chittenden has the
signature of the original Short
Shorter, but Bill Is Ill and 1
can't reach him now.
Clipper service across the At
lantic and TO South America
increased membership lot, and
now the war Is adding thou
sands OF Short Snorters- They
use all kinds of money, British
pounds, Brazilian, Portuguese
and other kinds of money, and
some members have collected 10
many signatures that they have
10 or Is dollar bills pasted end
TO end.
Likewise, Of late, some people
who haven't actually flown over
an ocean have been appointing
themselves Short Snorters and
getting genuine Short Snorters
TO sign dollars for them. How
ever, they are ersatL SDorters.
RANDOM NOTES S: This
probably belongs in Jimmy
Hatlos cartoon but we know of
a lady who. All dressed up in
her good clothes. bought a quar-
ter pound of butter and then
changed 10 her oldest buds and
went back for another four
ounces.
She got the extra butter
but she met just about every
body she knew on the second
trip and they gave her old
clothes a supercilious eye. The
butter, she thinks now, just
wasn't worth it.
One OF the teen-age recreat-
ton centers Is an old fire
department building, II used 60
be Ladder Company No. an
I'll the city let the "Y" turn II
into a center for teen-agers and
war workers at $3.50 Fort Very
successful, too.
The war workers ~ the Muir
ray plant have a story that
makes you feel good us IN the
Sentinel, their factory rows
paper. Alvin LeDuc, a crane
hooker at the Ecorse plant has
a car now, but, all LAT winter
he had 10 hitch-hike TO work
He lives Is miles from tho
plant, with no public trans
portation.
He always managed 70 get "a
work on time. too.
"T guess" LeDuc said. "tha'
people are just naturally nice
10 YOU when you're on the way
TO work"
He could hitch-hike nearly as
fast as he Gang noW IN his car
Not that we're kicking, but
the income tax pay roll deduc-
lions do funny things. You get
a raise, &c puts you in a higher
bracket and the taxes ca up
most Of II.
In an office near ours. a
woman discovered that seven
ceuts' worth Of overtime pay
mt her m q higher taA bracket
a. -..~A hNR 50,