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A BOSTON doctor has let fly with the suggestion that the way to cut down on adult misuse of alcohol is to get to the kids when young, teach them how to drink in grade school by administering watered sherry and the like. Newspapers and Public Moralists have had a field day with this one, but is it so foolish? Just think, if you began drinking at six, and got F in the drink course, because you couldn't manage it the way good little kiddies do, you would be eligible for AA by, say, age 10, have the program under your belt before high-school years begin, and zip into a manageable sober adolescence and adulthood. There will need to be a special AA pamphlet done a la elementary-school reader: "See Jane. See Jane drink sherry. See Dick. See Dick drink sherry. Jane and Dick are drinking! See Jane fall down. See Dick fall down."