Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-23

Read an article about Wen
dell WilIkie returning from
across and being met by about
40 members, who. in turn, each
demanded 81 signed by him.
II would appreciate any help
on the subject, and II that 81
bill Is wanted by Mr.. Thayer,
I would most certainly like TO
give IL TO him."
OK. here's what l 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 wien 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 Snorters. They then
autograph another dollar, which
he keeps.
From then on, any Short
Shorter, when he meets another
member, asks TO see his creden-
tials--that is, the autographed
buck. II a member is caught
without ii, he has TO pay 81 10
every member present.
Evidently. they caught Will
kie without his dollar, so he had
TO pay. For that same reason,
no doubt, Thayer might like TO
get his dollar back from yoti.
I'm somewhat I'm doubt rs 10
when the Short Snorters
started. I've been told dates
ranging from 1927 10 1888 and
the latter may be correct--it
In 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 a lot, and
now the war In 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 SO
many signatures that they have
10 or Is dollar bills pasted end
20 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
20 sign dollars for them. How
ever, they arc ersatE Snorters.
RANDOM NOTES: This
probably belongs in Jimmy
Hatlo's cartoon but we know of
a lady who, an dressed up in
her good clothes. bought quar-
ter pound OF butter and then
changed TO 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 eve. The
butter, she thinks now, just
wasn't worth II.
One of the teen-age recreat-
ton centers IL an old fire
department building. 1t used 10
he Ladder Company No. 3 un-
til the city let the "Y" turn IL
into a center for teen-agers and
war workers at $3.50 Fort Very
successful, too.
The war workers Of the Muir
ray plant have a story that
makes you feel good. It's in the
Sentinel, their factory news
paper. Alvin LeDuc, a crane
hooker at the Ecorse plant, has
a car now, but, all last winter.
he had 10 hitch-hike 70 work.
He lives Is miles from the
plant, with no public trans
portation.
He always managed to get TO
work on time, too
81 guess" LeDuc said, chat
people are Just naturally nice
10 you when you're on the way
TO work"
He could hitch-hike nearly as
fast as he can 90 now In his car.
Not that we're kicking, but
the income tax pay roll deduC-
tions do funny things. You get
q raise II puts YOU in a higher
bracket and the taxes eat up
most OF n.
In an office near ours, a
woman discovered that seven
cents worth Of overtime pay