Neither an individual nor a community ever reach the place where they can set the brakes when advancement quits and keep from backing down hill. This year and, we predict, several years following, will see marked advancement throughout the northwest. Moscow, one of the most substantial communities in the Inland Empire, backed by a territory of wonderful richness, must not attempt to stand still, but must plan for improvements and progress. The movement on the part of the chamber of commerce for better roads leading into Moscow is along the right line. An old fellow who recalls how the boys came back in '65, has much fault to find with the manner of return of troops in present days. They straggle as did the boys in gray, with the warm welcome, of course, but hardly as conquering heroes. They should come in units of a few thousand and they could if those at the head of affairs had brains and hearts.—Oregonian. 