A.A.'s Country-wide News Circuit

Continued steady growth of the Duluth, Superior and Two Harbors Groups is reported from Minnesota, highlighted by the first big open meeting held January 6 in the city hall at Duluth. Exactly 189 persons, nearly all of them A.A.s, attended, our correspondent reports. The chief speaker was a member from Minneapolis, an attorney, who described three types who come into A.A. --the first who just "lays bricks," the second who comes in only for personal gain and what he can get out of A.A., and the third type, who dedicates himself to helping others and who symbolically "builds a beautiful cathedral" that inspires others. . . . Members of the Pioneer Group of Winona, Minn., had so much fun at their first New Year's Eve party that they have decided to make it an annual affair. Twenty-five attended and all enjoyed the experience of waking up New Year's morning without hangovers. Later in the month five members traveled to Dubuque, Iowa, to participate in that group's third anniversary celebration, and recently an Iowa member journeyed to Winona to talk to the Winona Junior Chamber of Commerce about A.A., with the Winona Group represented at the meeting by two of its members.