When the Provo Chamber of Commerce staged its annual Business – Industry Education Day activities last week it perpetuated a tradition now extending into its third decade. The first annual B-I-E Day of the Chamber was held Sept. Z, 1954 when more than 200 teachers, principals and school board members were guests of 16 business and industrial firms in a round of activities designed to promote understanding of the free enterprise system. During the day, the educators visited offices and plants of the host firms where they saw exhibits and films and heard lectures on problems, accomplishments and plans of the various firms. In effect they saw the American system of free enterprise in action. That first B-I-E Day was climaxed with an evening banquet at the Wasatch School, with Dr. Adam S. Bennion, noted business executive, church man, and lecturer, as the speaker. Ernest R. Rasmuson, then editor of the Herald, was chairman of the Chamber of Commerce committee which sponsored the day’s activities. Each year since then, the Chamber of Commerce has carried on EI-E Day, timed to tie in with the opening of school. Indeed the project has grown with the community, and this year over 500 teachers, school administrators and business – industrial leaders participated. There were 43 sponsoring firms, The speaker this year was Darwin Van De Graaff, executive director of the Utah Petroleum Association, who keyed his remarks to modern – day energy problems facing the nation, Essentially, B-I-E Day has continued through the years under the initial format – except that for many years now the large assembly has been in the form of a breakfast meeting rather than in the evening. The dominant theme is still understanding between education and the business community of each other’s problems. Certainly it is important that educators, who wield such influence on youth, know the workings of the free enterprise system and be knowledgeable on such things as business and job opportunities, the business and industry role in providing community payrolls and in the taxing system, etc. As a sequel to B-I-E Day each year, the schools invite the business and industrial people into the classrooms for a “return engagement” – so that these folks may gain an intimate knowledge of the functioning of the schools. Congratulations are due the Chamber of Commerce and the schools for carrying forth this annual project.