.v. THE MICHIGAN DAILY piaG A Pied Galle senior. But when I started to cut across a plot of grass on the campus, the senior hauled me up short, and' Dear Pie (Pardbn the seeming forbade me to violate Michigan spirit. familiarity of the salutation; you see From which I have deduced that Mich- I almost feel as if I knew you from igan spirit is like most other kinds corresponding with you so much.) of noble ideals: it means to take care Well, dear Pie, I have always been of your own, and to blazes with every- a great admirer of Michigan spirit thing else. D. T. although I never knew what it was. I Today I found out, and, as I have With Apologies to Plato and Aristotle never met a student who did know (and the man who lived in A what it was, I thought it might be in- square before May, 1918) teresting to our little circle. I had a The old man's eyes were on the blink, two-part newspaper, when walking 'His curly hair was full of ink, with a senior this afternoon and threw His rosy cheeks were patched with one part on the public street. No pink, comment game from the senior. Lat- He sat and sot and tried to think:- er I started to throw the other part The folks who knew him wunk a wink on the boulevard, and heard the And said, "To write, he needs a drink" shocked comment, "Oh, don't litter up (We could go on like this all day). the boulevard. It belongs to the Uni- 1 'Tis strange how quickly humans versity. That's Michigan spirit." sink Later we cut across a citizen's lawn Beneath the billows brimming brink, and there was no objection from the When some old bleary visioned gink t } 1' Starts babbling of concoctions -But what's the use, One just Thirst! pink- gets a SIIIPBUILDING ON GULF COAST NOT SLACKENED BY ARMISTICE I l Query by member of "What are these gray tassels?" class of '22: toques with I went to a motion picture show; a Wild West one, with cattle rustlers, and lynching bees and saloons and dancing girls and Indian maids and ranch life and cowboys and cow pon- ies and none of the ponies were branded and all the Indians were vaccinated and then I thought of Larry Damm's and that was just of- ful. Harmless Sweet Proves -Dangerous Beaumont, Tex., Jan. 17. - Ship- building on the Gulf coast is boom- ing just as it was before the armis- tice was signed. The number of work- ers has not been reduced. Government contracts held by the four yards in Beaumont and two in Orange, Tex., for vessels for which the keel had not yet been laid, were abandoned, but there were about 40 ships in the two ports in various stages of completion and work on them is continuing. The ending of the war had no effect whatever on one yard at Orange which is building ships for the Italian government. Advertise in The Daily.-Adv. I -h I WU. _M" 6 S. USPN ,r U A DRESS FOOTWEAR FOR WOPMEN TheGirls are Preparing They want to look their best '*over here" to entertain the boys from "over there." Parties, entertainments and personal Calls demand the Daintiest Slippers to make their appearance com- pletely satisfying. Can molasses explode? Prof. Walter L. Badger, of the chemical engineering department, be- lieves it can. In his opinion it was the fermentation of molasses that caused the death of 12 men in Boston recently, when a huge tank contain- ing 2,000,000 gallons of the fluid burst. State investigators have been de- bating the cause of this catastrophe, holding either 'that molasses itself was the cause, or that the tank burst due to the excessive weight of the liq uid. Professor Badger believes that mo- lasses, if allowed to ferment, pro-, fduces a gas. This gas being com-! pressed in an airtight tank will, if left long enough, generate a powerful pressure. Therefore the fermentation of 2,000,000 gallons of molasses would, without doubt, produce enough gas to cause the explosion. White Our methods and machinery are up to date in every detail. The results-better work and long- er life to your fabrics. Silver and Gold Cloth -French Kid and Pat- ent Pumps - Oxfords or Two-eyelet South- ern Ties. Light, Dain- ty, Dressy Models, all sizes. '-. I We Still Have a Large Walk-Over Boot Shop 115 S. MAIN ST. Special Today! 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