Helping Hands

EGO AND SKID ROW: According to the widespread belief, the majority of derelicts on Skid Row got there through drink. Also according to widespread belief (in AA) one of the outstanding characteristics of the alcoholic is his unbridled ego. Now an experienced researcher has completed a study of Skid Row and has concluded that the typical derelict who has hit bottom there is not an alcoholic--and has no ego to speak of, either.