Show The Tire Xo doubt our readers will remember the complimentary words which last year we arrayed against a certain intangible something styled the “Hoodoo” We went further than this we printed his picture which was obtained from no other place than the fertile brain of our cartoonist We treated the “Hoodoo” with all respect and courtesy and his name appeared in print innumerable times Never once did we hesitate to mention him Still he persisted in loitering around the campus and college When the class of ’05 bowed their heads in the last benediction and there came a murmured “Amen” many of us went our ways for the summer hoping and trusting that old “Jimmy Hoodoo” would finally “slip on his sneakers and hike” to regions unknown But did he ? Listen For days the “old man” hung around Carefully concealing himself during day time and prowling about during the hours of night old Logan slept he succeeded in convincing us that he had gone and we rejoiced June passed July days slipped along August came and finally September showed itself on the calendar We counted the days when once more Rasmus Olaf would toll bell as every the “quarter-past- ” ! thing pointed towards a school year which nothing would interrupt But the “plans of mice and men gang aft aglee” and our plans were no exception About a week before the school year opened “Old Jimmy Hoodoo” had perfected his plans for a grand “butt-in- ” and a careful estimate places the cost of his little affair at $33288 It is a matter of public record as to what happened at his little “doin’s” Logan people saw and heard it all for at 12:45 on Monday night Sept 11 the “college hill” appeared to be “beautifully illuminated” A Salt Lake daily described it as “a scene of sublime grandeur when viewed from Logan and the greater part of Cache Valley” We do not know how true this poetical outburst describes the blaze in which the former Mechanic Arts building figured so conspicuously but we do know that when morning finally dawned that a conglomeration of blackened and walls twisted iron rafters the that warped machinery proved “Hoodoo” must certainly have had a “time” which in the case of human beings calls for cracked ice cold towels and Bromo on the morning after Undoubtedly it was the climactic stunt of the reign of |