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July 1953

From the Grass Roots

PRESENT COMPANY

It was a closed meeting. About fifteen of us were gathered. The talk was on "dry drunks" and how best to overcome them. Towards the close of the meeting a new man (possibly three months sobriety) brought up a recent television show by a non-alcoholic priest, in which he stated he couldn't buy the "disease" part of the alcoholic's make up.

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