I ». I ter, 1 > ( C. Managing * J. * BEAD, • » Editor ASHLAND DAILY TYPINGS MOBMAX, MBOOL BKOI8TBATIOM Ashland residents have every reason to be grati­ fied over the splendid registration recorded this week at the Sodthern Oregon state normal school. The new state institution of higher education is starting its fii«t fall and winter term under a more auspicious beginning than had been anticipated. The re-opening of the normal school lias. brought from all sections of the state many splendid young ms» and women. They will be a credit to the TBB AVBVBX8 Or n u Fires start from a variety of causes; they spread agd become serious, as a rule, because of unenclosed stairways, elevator shafts and other vertical open­ ings. Such passages are the avenues by which a fire in a basement or lower floor ascends with appalling rapidity and in a brief space of time involves an entile bailding. *' r c, By way of these apertures, superheated air and smoke will fire every combustible surface with which they come in contact, actual flame not being necessary te cause ignition. ’ ■: "■ 17 Whenever a newspaper reader encounters a tale of less of life in a fire that has gutted some dwelling, tenement, factory, or other structure, he may rest as­ sured that an unprotected vertical aperture was one of the chief contributing causes. . Fire prevention has been called ? fighting fire before it occurs,” while-tire protection aims to com- hat it a f t t i B starts, by retarding the spread of the blaze. * If the practice of safely, shutting off stairways and ether shafts would become general in the United States, as it is in European countries, the tremendous' toH of life and property nobr levied by fire would be largely curtailed. T U B TO CHECK IMPKKL1L MOVXMBBT The continued breaking down o l the restraints of the constitution on federal government; the con­ tinued usurpation of state powers, rights and func­ tions by the federal government; the continued im­ pairment of local self-government must result in­ evitably in federal empire and • vast bureaucratic establishment regulating all the affairs of the Ameri­ can people. The American people probably do not fully real- tea what is happening, but they are beginning to real- tea i t They are beginning to understand what fed­ eral expansion and federal interference with busi­ ness and personal conduct mean in the destruction of initiative, hampering of industrial and commercial activities and impairment of individual rights and liberties. We have gone far on that road, and there are signs of popular revolt. They are gratifying signs. It is high time for the American people to check the imperial movement. It is high time to decide puce and for all whether we shall retain the repub­ lic, or undertake empire; whether we shall have con­ stitutional government, or government from Wash­ ington by Federal’"bureaus. That is the big issue and includes all the lesser issues. nrTXLLIQKJïT LUMBKK BUYING Farmers are better lumber buyers and buy bet- teç lumber than ultimate consumers in the cities. As bis own builder and the actual occupant or utilizer of his owq structures, thé fanner knows the import' auce of quality in the material) - z ' . The ftm tr even purehtefts of eg ugneoesserily W* quality for certain uses. Well manufactured hun- bei; of thç lower grades can often be utilised for à ifivieâ parpese, so that the riteFaoteqatte (Meets of those grades do not impair l|« tyefulness. It is suggested that thtet “ jpst-as-good” poon- omses, through intelligent utilisation of nominally poorer qualities where suit« thfe, d ill enable the farm­ er to purchase better gradée of millwork - tailing, trim and finish flooring .than-he 4ees bow . WBAT W T & W f r 1. counselor* ofjflw fwm or »re insistent fpr the tam rif JBfir te ««cured by a luetioa of the 'tkriri bn indmftriul goods. Mt effects of retiiuiBg the tariff would hp thf taxes of ttis farmer and to restrict • market for home grown farm products iteiar as an exathpfe. A high tariff is not f .M h priew AS some pemons suppose, Isn't H Odd? j ROMS. Sept. 18— There »re 20,M S Italiaa fam ilies with mere Oregon’» porcaae wOw, «ecim tiee aaw'eeaodg by eea ep e ri ea e with thoee of other state* siq sis ’ • ■ ■» - i - When the jury is hong prisoner isn’t- No one says se little fellow who says too ma« • CLBVBLAND. 8ept. »A—-The IS,OSS aagro residents of Clove- Coagrees passes tho hills while load are planning te-ao* On ex- oauplo la charity to the root of paying them la the public’s sweet t>e «tty’s SSS.SSS population privilege. with orootlon of a mow heepttsL lA re ' Bar dag». Ony ftatir im