What is a Chamber of Commerce and what does it do’? These seem legitimate questions as the Provo C. of C. launches its annual membership drive today. A Chamber of Commerce, you might say, is the public relations agency of your city – a force for unity, a builder of industry and commerce, and a source of service. In the current drive, Monday through Friday, the Provo Chamber will be aiming especially to reactivate former members and to bring a large number of new prospects into the fold. Within the framework of the C. of C. there is opportunity to serve the community in many ways and all who desire to help are welcome. The work of the Chamber is done through 12 standing committees: Aviation, education, govermnental affairs, highway and transportation, industrial development, membership, merchants, tourists and conventions, public relations, community improvement, the women’s division, and the past presidents. The Chamber provides opportunity for individuals and firms to demonstrate that they live FOR the community. Anyone may apply for membership in the C. of C. Its work and service apply especially to business and industrial people, the professions, educators anybody, in fact, with a stake in the city. M. Warner Murphy, a banker, currently is president of the Provo Chamber of Commerce, with David R. Lyon of the Brigham Young University staff as acting president-elect. Glen Overton, a past president, is chairman of the membership committee, with Stan Heal Jr. director in charge. There are excuses for not joining the Chamber of Commerce, to be sure. But there also are good, solid reasons for joining. We suggest you be receptive to the message of the fellow citizens who ca l on you this week. Quiet Demise The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, a cornerstone of American policy in Asia for two decades and one of the rationales for our involvement in the Vietnam war, will pass out of existence on June 30. A quiet burial is being arranged at the State Department, says the New York Times. “The big issue at SEAT0 headquarters now,” one Asia specialist is quoted as quipping, “is what to do with the furniture.” The dead bodies – some 56,000 of them on the American sidealone – have already been disposed of. Singular Question Now that they have been placed on the White House breakfast menu, everyone should know what grits are. But is there such a thing as one grit? Dr. Frederick C. Mish, an editorial director of the G. & C. Merriam Company, was recently asked if lgrits, a popualr dish among resident Carter’s southern countrymen, came in the singamr. ‘ ‘le in the realm of Platonic ideal forms there may exist such a thing s a single grit of hominy or other grain,” e says, there is no singular word in that sense. Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary defines “grits” as “coarsely ground hulled grain,” which is not to be confused with “grit,” meaning sand or, “unyielding courage in the face of hardsiergeusq-L . D- so One can hope, however, that the 39th president becomes as much identified with the singular form as he already has with the plural. So They Say “The question is whether we go skittering off the edge of the cliff in a blind way or whether we begin to make the adjustments now. The purpose of the President’s program is to start adjusting now for what will inevitably take place in the future.” – James R. Schlesinger, White House energy advisor.