The Chamber of Commerce is, or may be, a most valuable asset to a city. Why? Because it is simply organized effort. It is intelligent teamwork. It stops lost motion. It brings together the best thought of a city, and directs the energies of a people into proper and helpful channels. It gives a live, worthwhile man anything to do that is worth doing, and brings results that cannot be had by double the labor and time through individual and cross-cross effort. How far do you get when you divide your team, hitching a horse to each end of the wagon and pull in opposite directions? Only through cooperation, a community attain 100 percent efficiency. No matter what your place in the community may be, to say you are not interested in a Chamber of Commerce is foolishness.

Saying there is no benefit from unity of purpose; that disorganization is better than organization; that the way to move a load is to tie the horses tail together and stand back and kick because you can't get any where. Without cooperation, no community can prosper, and the first man to suffer is the wage earner. He must have employment to eat, and a dead town is a poor place for him.

Every mail brings requests to the Moscow Chamber of Commerce for information about Moscow and the Palouse country. These people want to know about Latah county. They ask about our crops, about the climate, yields of grain and grass, our schools, churches, and the value of land. And there is positively not  A thing in the form of printed literature to mail out. 