Bridging the Gap

READING THE new and excellent AA publication Dr. Bob and the Good Oldtimers, I was struck by these comments (page 102): "Hospitalization was [a] must in the early days . . . so much a part of the treatment that Warren C., who came to AA in Cleveland in July 1939, recalled that there was considerable debate about whether he should be admitted to the Fellowship, since he had not been hospitalized. So when an AA mentions now that they didn't . . . have all this hospitalization when he came into the program, he's talking about the old days--not the old old days."