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Show A Tribute to AA :1, Fourteen years ago -a country doctor, whose career was being wrecked through heavy drinking. "S 'cad way out of his "Lost 5 Weekend" through the help of a N'ew York broker, a fellow sufferer suf-ferer who had cured himself through service to others. That ?s' ceetiig resulted in the formation it- of the national organization we p brow today as Alcoholics Aenony- L" ECUS. in, In this fourteen year period, AA has done what the Chicago Sun-Times, in a recent editorial, Ou!s "one of the most remarkable ;:' of our generation." It points SO nt that the rehabilitation of prob- jy '.a drinkers by AA members, si of whom are on call night or cay to go to the aid of a victim, is cf inestimable value. Each victim laved means a family also saved. Each AA means less work for doctors, hospitals, welfare agen- ce ties and even the police. Said the 31- Chicago Sun-Times: "lloreover, the movement has heen one of the greatest single laitors in teaching all of us that the evil of drink is not in the ill bottle. It is in the maladjusted nj individual who turns to the bottle to escape from real or imagined frustrations. "A lot of us used to think that S the bottle were removed, the il would disappear. That's why e tried National Prohibition. Painfully, sometimes bloodily, that signified our mistake up to a size nere all but the most fanatic: ys' could see it. 'Alcoholics Anonymous goes to U causes of habitual drunken-js drunken-js instead of trying a ful l-W-nelson on the effects. That's ; zj AA is with us today while "onibition isn't." |