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July 1952

From the Grass Roots

REVERSE ENGLISH?

DOES everyone agree with all you print lately or is it that you use the WPB for material of a critical nature? Take, for example, the first letter in the May number from F.C. of Humber Summit, Ontario, Canada, which you entitled "New Crutches for Old." The only point I can make of it is that we shouldn't go to meetings unless we are approximately 100% on the beam. . .so we can give rather than get. That seems to me to be about 100% "reverse English," as I was early taught and continue to believe, that the time we need meetings most is when we're way off the beam. I am very much afraid that if I stayed away from meetings until I was in the proper frame of mind to be an example to anyone, I would not be around now unless it was as a "horrible example." If a meeting is a crutch, as F.C.' S letter and your title states, it surely is a big improvement over the old style crutch of the bottle. . .and I am all for it.

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