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June 1957

Closed Meeting

THE COURAGE OF SOBRIETY

"WHAT MADE so MANY OF us WANT to escape during our alcoholism?" asked the leader. "Wasn't it to avoid responsibility or to lose ourselves in oblivion? Isn't there a more realistic word for escapism--cowardice--resulting directly from our compulsion to drink?

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