A.A.'s Country-wide News Circuit

From San Diego, Cal., comes an account from a column in the Daily Journal which says, "A few evenings back as the Continental room of the Hotel San Diego was being prepared for a banquet, a barman burst into the scene, hurried to the darkened bar off to one side and complained to waitresses within hearing that he hadn't been notified, had no chance to get extra help and had to try to service 500 people alone. An assistant manager heard his grumbling. 'I guess you don't know what banquet this is,' he told the barman. 'You can put your bottles away.' It was the annual dinner of A.A. The bar remained dark all evening."