Mail Call for All A. A.s at Home Or Abroad

A very interesting story appeared in a local paper recently, outlining a talk given to one of our men's clubs by a member of the Tampa A. A. Group. We have a friend whom we feel is just about ripe, and while I have not been personally associated with the movement, I have heard enough good things about it to recommend it highly to him. The biggest bridge he has to cross is that admission of being an alcoholic, as I imagine it is for most people in his position. The man may have a lot of false pride, but who among us hasn't to some degree and in some respects? Naturally, that came to the fore when he read the article which I had just skimmed, for it named two members of the Tampa Group, thereby giving him a fine argument against my exhortations that A. A. was all the name implied. Is this a new policy? If so, as an outsider, I feel that it will set a good many people back a long stretch. From all I've ever heard or read, that has been one of your strongest selling points, and it's been one of the refreshingly different things about your movement. In small towns anonymity is a hard thing to maintain, but the public print tears away any semblance of it, and scares people who are still trying to put up any front for the sake of their families and jobs. Maybe this isn't a moot question, but seeing the names linked to A. A. surprised me.