A.A.'s Country-wide News Circuit

Solid progress in telling the A.A. story to the public in a plan for education is reported by the St. Paul, Minn., Group which has four members on the mayor's committee for the study of alcoholism. The committee has been placed under the auspices of the city Council of Social Agencies, making available to them the use of existing facilities including a speakers' bureau, newspaper space and other community outlets. The St. Paul Group has been swamped with requests for speakers and members have recently discussed A.A. before such organizations as the North St. Paul Lions club, First Christian church, Young Married Couples club of Dayton Presbyterian church, the young married people of Fairmount Methodist church and the inmate group at St. Cloud State Reformatory. Further acceptance of the effort was shown when Carl Swanson, director of State institutions told the St. Paul Group that the A.A. philosophy was a thing at which he marvelled and that if it could be made universal this would be a better world.