Bill W. and Dr. Bob S. in a big meeting in Cleveland 1950

We do things together and I wonder if you will stand and say with me the a prayer

Oh God Grant makes the serenity to accept the things I cannot change courage change the things I can and wisdom no difference.

I really want to say how much I personally appreciate your tremendous health that Cleveland A a Akron a as have been through the committee that tried to pin this conference together.

The cooperation has been mobbed and Cleveland A 1/2 an A a want to welcome those people who have settled from far places to be with us and help us express high gratitude. For 15 years of AK

I did nothing

might answer that. And our Indigenous one of our cofathers, Doctor Bob.

France in a, A and a. I feel I would be very immense if I didn't take this opportunity to welcome you here to Cleveland, not only to this meeting, but those that have already transpired. I hope very much that they have the presence of so many people and the words that you heard will prove an inspiration to you. Not only to you, but

may you be able to impart that inspiration to the boys and girls back home

who are not fortunate enough to be able to count. In other words, we hope that your visit here has been both enjoyable and profitable.

I got a big thrill looking over a vast field, faces like this, with a feeling that's possibly some small thing that I've been a number of years ago, played a infinite small thought. In making this meeting possible,

I also get quite a throw. And I think that we all have the same problem. We all did the same thing. We all got the same results in proportion to our zeal and enthusiasm. And stick to itiveness.

If you'll find the injection of a personal note at this time, let me say that I've been in bed for five of the last seven months.

My strength hasn't returned as I'd like, so my macho of necessity be very brief,

but there was two or three things that flashed into my mind on which it would be fitting to lay a little emphasis. One is the simplicity of our program.

Let's not blouse it all out with Freudian complexes and things that are interesting to the scientific mind that have very little to do with our actual AA work

are 12 steps, when tumored down to

the last, resolve themselves into the words love and service. We understand what love is, and we understand what service is. So let's bear those two things in mind.

Let us also remember to God that airing number of the comp. And if we must use it, let's use it with kindness and consideration

on. And one more thing,

none of us would be here today or if somebody hadn't taken time to explain things to us, to give us a little pat on the back to take us to a meeting up to, to have done numerous little times and possible acts in Malibu. So let us never get the degree of non complacency so that we're not willing to extend

or attempt to

that help that attempt old demonstrations for us

to our last fortunate brother, thank you very much.

I'm sure that we

here in Cleveland and those of us who enjoy the privilege being associated with not to all regions and appreciate that he spoke from experience when he spoke in having the talent being not only willing but needed to help. We alcohol and I just attention and one of my friends.

The results have been had any differences, darker personality.

I know that you might be embarrassed and I say that he has in the last 15 years worked with

4 or 5000 people that were hospitalized. In addition to the problems we've spoken to admitting an entitled conversation all having the time necessary to do that work.

A a has been the result of the

joining together are dual experience 1 doctrine and the other bill who said we did his mind he was introduced.

Two is there one doctor and the other?

So we said we could do mine to introduce.

I

12 years ago this fellowship commenced with the Tariff Book.

The book we know today is Alcoholic Phenomenon

and in the last pages of its text

the book express the fault.

Yet it was more than a hope

Detroit of a train

that we then in this fellowship had,

and we express our hope and our dream in these words.

Someday we hope that every alcoholic who journey will find a fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous at this destination.

To some extent, this is already true. Some of us are salesman involved, little clusters are twos and threes, and five have sprung up in other communities through contact with our larger center. Those of us who travel drop in as often as we can. This practice enables us to land at hand,

at the same time avoiding certain alluring distractions of the road about which any traveling man can inform them.

Such was our dream,

and it had been given to only a few.

To see an impossible dream come true

almost in its entirety,

one wondering what could be added to what we have already seen and felt and heard in these last two or three days.

The song of this assembly is gratitude,

and we rejoined in our world unity,

now spread into some 34 countries and reflected back on us. Here

we rejoined. Today is still simple

and more deeply meaningful than ever.

Yes, this is a time for gratitude, a time for rejoining.

It may be truly time of happy reminiscent

when we can think back a little upon the days of our birth, our childhood, and our adventure.

It may be a time when we can think together once more

about those principles upon which we resolved yesterday, which may bind us together in unity for so long as God shall need.

First, let's take the bump. And you think for which we are greater.

Of course we are grateful

and find no words to expect it

through the Father of Light who presides over us all. So He's out for it is great to fund,

and has made this salvation

and ran away. One begins to think of friends

who have been part of this benign conspiracy. Conspiracy, which is alcoholic amount.

I think right away of the friend that first came to me with a very simple message today, Thank God, still the core of our procedure.

I think of a wife who stood by.

I think of Doctor Sponsor, the first Protestant person

to say that.

I think it's Father Dowling out there in Saint Louis for a Catholic Church in every state.

I think of my own doctor

in town constantly. The one I had, my sudden experience said no, Bill, you are not crazy. You would better hang on to what you've got.

Norwich were indeed faithful words for Alcoholics Anonymous. Suppose that man of science that said, ah, this is what an illusion it will soon pass away.

What a vital contribution,

and I think that the first client is still the friend of the and who has since brought us before his whole See,

I think of the editors of the Saturday Post

who published the good news to the world and made us a national institution.

Yes, these men and medicines, these men of religion.

Once Upon a time we stood in a no man's land between them. We weren't exactly scientific, and some thought we weren't religious enough.

Today we find ourselves in a common meeting place, working together as one.

Ah yeah, the frangled defender, without whom this movement could never have been.

And each of us, of course, think of that one who was the very nearest,

the odd one, the wife, the father, the mother,

who saw it true, but went down into The Cave with us and stayed when all others had gone.

I think the Lord

and she and I would like to join in saying a special service

to the one who is the mother of the first day, April

and man.

She was a mother,

the networks group with all of the attributes of motherhood.

Her deep understanding

for class of the factors through the needs of our children are things we Alzheimer's shall never forget.

Got West and keypad.

I am sure he looks down on our care today

and I think of the one who perhaps would care. And we had a who had time, when nine or ten others did not, to bring Smithy and me together,

Yet another link that played this wondrous thing.

You know what a a we have, what a national rule that we never praise people.

But I think for once we ought to get around that role.

So I'm going to tell you why I am so grateful for Smithers.

You remember, after working with Alcoholics, or rather freaking at them for six months,

I came to Akron, OH

and fail miserably in a business manner.

For the first time,

I realized that I needed another alcoholic as much as you could possibly need me

and drive. Bob is the man who has filled, who filled that need.

He and I have been associated together in all these wonderful years. 15 now gone by.

I cannot think or remember the time

when we ever had an angry argument, angry word between

and. This is a tribute indeed to him, the shortest many of you know who. I have been mad at lots of other people.

On Tuesday afternoon

Bob and I made our pilgrimage,

and I mean it when I say that

to Henrietta Cow,

and she knows an expression

which I think is so fit.

She described Doctor Bob as the rock on what? On which A A was found.

How said he meant what? How that

so, I beg you, as you leave here, perhaps not to return for another 10 years, but you barely are away with you. An image of those two,

the mother of the first a a group and the rock on which it was found.

You know people have to pay nowadays.

Genuine concern

today is very different than it used to be.

It's constantly complicated. It has become big business. There are those who would commercialize it.

Well, I'm glad that that concern exists

for law. For so long as we exhibit that prudent, those things will never happen.

And a recent trip to Europe convinced me that our essential message is just as simple

and just as the spirit in its workings. I could always watch.

On May 12th a plane descended on Arrow airfield,

very large from Nathan, Norway.

Our contact with that country has been so slight and we didn't know whether we find it doesn't, I hate or maybe at the outside a couple of times.

Well, while we were going through customs, we heard a commotion. We heard a language of us. We didn't understand the syllable and lawyers looked at me and said, yes, there's the drop

came out of money and we should not make out a word when it was sent

by a sign language. We were in motion to make car. We got down to the hotel, another dozen turns off, among them a fellow who could speak a little English.

Ah, they couldn't talk English,

but how? Well, in their faces they expressed our universal language of love

is an experience that we shall never forget.

As I met picture unfold

and we found a of the three years old in this city,

yet they have taken through their hospitals at that point something like 1000 cases

that their membership might run in 100,

Although because of their extreme anonymity, nobody could say just commenting there were. You see in Norway we found that there are two kinds of people because of the tremendous stigma, you have the kind of people who dare come to meeting and you have the kind the vast majority who dare not. After a while, we learned that there were six waiters in an Oslo restaurant, none of whom knew that the other was in a A. Yet they'd all been sobering to them over one year, and you'd be sad.

And old ones formed themselves into little squads of one and two and three, and visited these people

every other time

I asked. We finally taken over in Germany. There

they had a couple. We found that the finest psychiatrist in Oswald studied sample of approval upon these Norwegian, and then we learned to our great joy that he was a man of deep religious conviction.

One of the finest lawyers and judges in on flow

had already associated himself in a benign way with the enterprise.

And then we journey to birth and to Christians and His of honor

and found their flourishing a group.

And how did this all happen?

Very simply,

very movingly and very miraculously, as it always has happened.

Five years ago at Greenwich, CT,

a Norwegian American who had been drunk for 20 years.

It's over now. By contact with that proof,

he commenced the right to the old country, telling the family what has happened. I'm sending along a little money which he could deal with fair as an artist.

Finally, you gotta let him back

saying that his father was in this same calibre situation.

What could be done about it?

Well,

the man from Greenwich walked it over with his wife

and following the classic pattern,

they decided they would sell all they had in the world, namely a very small restaurant and

cash. They would buy a round trip to Arguello to see if they could help that partner.

So like Lawson means three years before they came down and Oslo Airport,

some of the family was not the alcoholic were there to meet them and that was all.

With great vigor and enthusiasm, they laid our message before their suffering drop.

It turned out he was a typesetter on one of the papers.

Why? And I'm no alcoholic. Why have we heard that before?

He said. I'll have no part of any salvation business like this. Where have we heard that before?

And he wouldn't have any salvation.

Well, he visited him out of his home, a $0.25 Ben out on the fjord opposite by the Norwegians. Not that great German battleship.

What an old man.

So then the management rally said well there is going to be an AA group at this town.

So he sent out and he visited all his courses

and they praised him for his enterprise, but they gave him no drops to work on. Apparently they didn't know anything

and he heard it from doctor and there was number for example.

Saw the nano and soul only man

was now time to turn around and go home and start over

at that very moment is recalcitrant brother. They stay drunk. That was a honey. It was Dwayne Danger and them all, as indeed it did

Anthony Agony of The Hangover.

Better call to his brother, the mansion Greenwich and he said say

Howie once more

about this thing. The anonymous alcohol

and the man converted as well. It's very wonderful, but it's very

I just admitted

that I could no longer control my drinking, that it controlled me.

I got honest with myself, as I have never got honest with you before. I quit this business of living alone and taught myself out for somebody else. I went to the people who I harmed and I made a man.

And then he said, you know, I was not a person of any faith,

but I have common to believe in a power greater than I,

the power which has indeed worked a miracle in me,

for I was hoping.

And then he said I was taught of a new kind of giving, the kind of giving that demands no reward,

One alcoholic helping up.

And that is why, my brother, I have come to Norway to see you.

That was the entire message from the man who had come from Granite

July 12, the man who had sold all he had in the world.

Before he left,

he took a little pamphlet, printed of course, in English by the White Plains group, and he made a longhand translation in Norwegian, which he had done forgotten forget, and he left. That translation

went further, and that was the beginning of AARP.

The printer hasn't had the drinks in this day. The first printer inserted ads in the envelope paper saying he was a recovered alcoholic who wished to help others without cost to them. The ads ran for weeks because of the stigma. Nobody responded

and finally, as he was about to give up, he got one reply. It came from a forest

who and his wife ran a little sidewalk shop and kind. You see a knock?

The Forest was a grand cafe. He heard the story. He read this translation of the 12th Step,

he went to work on other Alcoholics and he had not had a drink to this day. And they put more ads in the paper

and they grew very, very slow.

And then they came in contact with this doctor. Where we find these wonderful friends, I don't know. Who knows? Psychiatrist larger than I said, a man of deep religious conviction who instantly saw the implication of what went on. And that's how I ain't got to Oslo.

Does that sound like big business?

Does that sound like over organization?

Isn't that honestly simple

yet an experience and it's working indeed. Yes, and I think if we will look around anywhere in a where new people are receiving this message, they will see the same thing reenact

and of course all the highest from here will want to know how it got to Ireland.

In much the same fashion,

one time, a little over three years ago, an Irish American in Philadelphia, whose bankroll was better, decided that even his wife would take a vacation. They go over to Dublin, revisit the old land,

but he's been in trouble in no time when he began to forget about the vacation. Why, if there's no a crocodile,

they better have one again. He looks up a doctor.

Maybe we're down. I'm a psychiatrist, but this was another one.

And this man was also a man of deep religious conviction and saw the point. And he told this doctor the story. And the doctor had charge of a large hospital once endowed by the writer split for people who were ailing medalist, and they took some alcohol. And he left this simple message and the template was just one man.

And when Lawrence and I came to Dublin we found 300 members in South Ireland. We found groups at court, we found groups at Limerick. In fact, let me tell you, the Irish, that that group at Clark is within sight of Barney S

I saw it came to London, a Canadian metal artist brought it there.

I am Lloyd and I saw Alcoholics Anonymous transcending every single barrier of race, creed, tradition and language. It was a never to be forgotten experience. Comparable in today when she and I discovered that I could be free. Comparable with that day when Slippy and I sat in his living room after three years

and counted them up and there were forty who had been stolen, and we realized that a new life had come into this Dark World of alcoholism.

I have indeed this at the time for drivers gratitude for all these things need.

Let's look back once more, briefly

upon the time of our birth.

I don't need to qualify as an alcoholic. I want where he goes who already know about it, whether fresh account of that sudden experience, which really,

but I would like to bring you again and let us replace together

what happened over here in Ankara

years ago.

I have come here, as I said, on a business trip which I hope would repair our forces and bring lawyers out of that department store where she was still supporting me. I have been working with Alcoholics, or rather I have been preaching at Alcoholics, where the piously, I suspect,

and quite rightly nothing has happened when I suddenly find myself in need and desperate need indeed. And there are many in this audience who have been spelled. I was alone down the Mayflower Hotel, walking up and down there,

love. It was Saturday afternoon. My business deal had fallen through. I was dispirited. I was full self pity.

I am subway. I panic in fear of getting drunk. And then came and thought, oh, how much I need another alcoholic.

And I remember seeing the church directory, I was going into the lobby and I went to it

and sort of absent mindedly drew my finger down the list of names there

and finger stop at a man who has since proved himself a great friend of our society, Doctor Walter Thomas. He turned out to be in a physical compadre. I called up a good man and said, well, I'm an alcoholic from New York who was looking for a drop to work on. He seemed a little dumbfounded as that he's very unusual request. Quite naturally, he felt that one alcoholic at a time might be enough.

And he gave me a list of people,

some of them connected with the old Oxford rule,

to whom we owe so much, both as to what and what not to do. And he said some of these people may be able to, you know, find an alcoholic body to work on. I think I had a list of about 10, and I began to call them. It was on a Saturday afternoon. Quite naturally,

these people said, well, I'll see you in church tomorrow. I'm sorry, I've got a holiday. Others were out. Others didn't seem to take in my knees at all.

And finally I came to the very end of that list

and by then I was getting very blue indeed.

And the name there was

our last name is a well known name in the rubber industry. Oh, I have that good lady. Wouldn't want to see an alcoholic on a Saturday afternoon looking for another alcoholic to work upon. Oh no, I can't call her.

And then something said, well, it's better.

And I called on her delightful Southern voice came down over the wire and I told her of my knees. And she said, I think I understand once you come right off.

Are all those people. She was the only one who had time to look after my knee.

And when I arrived there, we talked about and she said, I think I know just now,

well, no doctor here in town or he's in terrible shape now. Fried medicine, fried religion is best. Of course. I'm sure he wants to get well. Supposing I call up his wife, man. I said yes, please do.

The chance that it was Mother's Day.

So how do I explain to Anne that there was a man in New York who thought he could help Alcoholics and we probably needed some help himself

when she and Bob lacked up over.

I don't know just how Anne put it, but there's some of it was there. But it was Mother's Day and the good doctor had just come in with the greatest 6 potted plant.

He had placed a potted plant on a cable as a tribute, but had gone upstairs and was so potted that he himself could not drive.

Nothing solid. And we understood once you come tomorrow.

Oh yes, how I work. And that afternoon, the door opened. And in what?

My baby. And then

I tell you, none of us felt like founders that day and I ardently wish that we can soon get over the feeling nowadays.

But this time I knew I needed him as much as he needed me. He had an awful hangover. He thought he could only stay 5 minutes. He was very thirsty.

How did we talk for hours? And there, I suppose for the first time, we became worthy of grace of God and sparked. That was to be. Alcoholic Anonymous was struck

learning that of my business difficulty and my hope of reviving it and I think with the idea of keeping a weather eye on the Old Boy Bank here

and said why don't you come over to the house and live a while.

So when I got over there it watched long before Smith. They looked at me rather quickly and he said, don't you think it's about time we did some work on some drugs just as a matter of self protection. Well, maybe I've got something there. I think that I'll call up the Akron City Hospital. I'll talk to the head nurse down in the receiving. And soon he was telling her that,

well, along with a man from New York, he thought they had a new cure for alcoholism.

He blushed a little. And I since learned, the nurse said, going. Well, doctor, why don't you try it yourself?

And I didn't write

see that? Yeah, it's about damaged. Just came in there bombing lawyer rounds down. He worked Once Upon time, members of the City Council all falling apart then drunk six times in the last four months. He can't even leave here and get home without getting screwed again. Just now he's got the DTS,

he's pushed the nurses around,

but he's full of Piraldo hide and scrap down now. How was that one doing

so the next day, or the day thereafter? Doctor Bob looked on its sight

with 10s of thousands of us have seen and God willing hundreds of thousands of us will still see

it is the size of the alcoholic on that bed. Who does not know?

But he can death well, So we made our parents before the man on the bench.

We call him of the nature of his melody, magically speaking.

We also told him the nature of his malady spiritually,

and they repeated they're very simple self say employment. Whose transport to Oswald I just described just like that, nothing more.

But the man on the bench took his head and said, no, I'm so far gone. He said. You probably know what you're talking about. He said, you've been through the mail all right with me. You're not so bad as I am. I don't dare go out again.

I was drunk every time I went out of here on the way home. I'm quite as too late for the life of me. And he said, you know, I'm a man who has faith in God, but very obviously God has not his faith in me.

Well, we said we come back tomorrow

all we asked. He said I'd like to talk with this tomorrow, although I don't think it's much you.

Well, on tomorrow we came again. As we entered the room, the man's wife was sitting at the foot of his bed looking at him insane.

Why? How you would change? What is God in you?

And he turned to us, he said. There they are. They are the people who understand.

And then he went on to relate how during the night, his hopelessness had changed to hope,

how perhaps he might be released from his throne.

And then if he resolves his practice, our simple precepts, and abandoned himself with God, something more than hope can, which has now swelled into a mighty assure.

Oh, the man on the bed stand up and he said,

please fetch me my clothes. We are going to get up and go out there.

No, a #3 rose from his breath and he walked out of there, and he hadn't had a drink to this day.

So that was the first fulfillment. Saw a tiny flame started to burn now right deep,

shedding his life throughout the world,

reaching every distance. Beachhead

indeed. We must explain

what happened. God, what?

Oh, then what am I left

one of the lessons of that?

And where do we find ourselves today?

And what my future whole in store for us.

So how do I remember the day in smithing his living room when we knew that this thing was worked

and we said to ourselves, we must call a meeting here in Akron to see what we should do.

It has taken three years of hard work to produce 40 recovery within guns out of it. Men and women are guy. How shall we let them know?

Well, I've been in a businessman and promoter immediately began to think in terms of big money and big organization. And I said to myself, well,

don't we need hospital? These hospitals don't like drugs. We should have our own chain hospitals and they can produce all the money we need. Look at the money they dry out going today

and then sent to this taking such a long time to bring about these two recoveries. Shouldn't each of us get something done and become missionaries temporarily and go out to other cities and start being sent?

And that's Lindy and I reflected. Well certainly we ought to make a record of this, some kind of a pamphlet or book in which we can set down our experience and how this thing has worked so far.

Well, I'll never forget that evening, 1 fateful decisions were taken and see Henry Williams living room

G Henry was so drunk before a friend he was there must have been some 18 on his presence.

I went on enthusiastically about these great plans,

saw the faces of my colors fall,

and they began to say to me, no,

if we bring money into this thing, it's going to spoil.

If we hire people to do these things, it's going to reflect more.

And I asked for books. Well, who's going to write books and what we quarrel about that?

Well, there was great force to what those people said and there is still going for a story.

They held up a warning,

but I paid the two little deeds. You know, I'm pushed to failed money. I began to argue, but he supported me. He said, but we have to do something, We at least have it, otherwise our message will get gobbled. We'll get distorted. Have an alcoholic for the great distance got a right to know what has happened here?

So the conclusion of the meeting was that if I thought we needed money, I'd better go back to New York and raise where there was supposed to be plenty

and happy birthday ideas. Full of enthusiasm. I got home and immediately but thought myself as a Rockefeller foundation. I figured there'd be plenty of soul there,

but the Rockefeller Foundation wasn't in right. They said there was a depression on. They felt a little hard up. Besides, this new movement I described with 40 people were didn't seem to have any special classification. It wasn't exactly religious, it wasn't exactly a medical, it wasn't exactly scientific. It was exactly educational. It probably didn't fit in any capital

well. I felt terribly passed down. Made some other approaches for money for hospitals and missionaries and books. Nothing happened until one day I happened to stand in the office of my

brother-in-law who's a doctor. He'd heard these complaints of mine before. He said why don't you step in and talk to Doctor Charlie Wind and chairs an office nearby. Used to be the commissioner of health here in New York. He would understand what you're talking about. So I talked to find myself soon talking to Charlie Wynn

and he said yes to me. Said I have a feeling that has very prompted, I like yourself, I feel that this means a tremendous lot of money or well, time. Now he said, how about the Rockefeller Foundation? And I said no, no, he said, I've got a better one. He said over at the foundation, they really wouldn't understand this thing. He said the man who was really understand is John D Rockefeller himself.

Well, I said, doctor, that's fine, but what about an introduction? Maybe you can give me an introduction to the front of Wales after we reach John D Rockstar.

And just then

my brother-in-law woke up and he said

when I was a young fellow going to school, I used to know a girl, and that girl had an uncle. And I think he was somehow connected with the Rockefeller character.

I don't even know if he's alive. I don't know this. He would even remember my name. But suppose I call up Mr. John D Rockefeller's office and see if there is such a man around.

No, you made a simple call on the phone to Mr. John Lee's personal office.

The voice of Mr. WS Richard, one of the greatest friends in society will ever have came on the wire. He said to my brother-in-law. Where have you been, Leonard? All these games? I'm so glad to hear from you. Unlike me, my brother-in-law is a man of very few words. So he said quite abruptly. Well, Mr. Richardson, I have a relative here who thinks he can do something for alcoholic. We'd like to tell you the story. May we come over,

answered the old man. Why surely he said, walk right over. So we soon find ourselves going on 56 stories. Walked into Mr. John DS private office and there said, dear old man was

he listened attentively to the story around three years old. He said, yes. He said, I'm deeply interested. I have some friends around here who I think might be interesting. And we have the meaning. Oh, what a sigh of relief. I breathe. I said, my Lord, now the the big money is really inside

and the old man said to me,

I'll be glad to tell junior about this. Any message on day Junior? He said once you'll have lunch with me. Well, I felt that for promoter I was really doing very well,

so I had lunch with him in the fall of 1937. There was a little meeting.

Some of the Alcoholics from Akron came. I think it was one from Cleveland. Some of the New Yorkers and Mr. Richardson and several of Mr. Rockefellers friends and associates Madden John Dee's personal boardroom. And I thought to myself, now folks, our money trouble grows.

Well, each of us told our story. That's all of our story, this same simple story.

And then Mr. Scott, chairman at the Riverside Church.

He spoke up and he said, well, what is your name?

And was becoming reluctant. I let him know that it's mine

and he said, But aren't you afraid that you will professionalize this thing? Isn't this purely a work of goodwill?

We admitted that it was. Why? But we said also we certainly have to have at least a book of some kind.

We have to have at least a little money. And the salesman president, eventually a gentleman that we ought to have some money. And one of them came out to Akron where Smithy was a little harder up at the moment and where the first group had started and where there was a typical community situation. He came out to Akron and went over a a with Defiance, whose call, of course, we still didn't have the name of it. He came back and he made a report to Mr. Rockefeller that we ought to have $50,000 right at once

just to start open a rest home in Akron. We put Smithy in as a doctor. That would be just a pilot plant, a model for the other,

and naturally the definitive money for book publishing. And we might probably get a few missionaries.

Well, as I have often observed, A A has many, many founders.

Time after time

the singer of Providence has laid his hand on a person who has altered the whole course of this movie.

And just now the Hand of Providence was touching Mr. John D Roscoe.

He looked at that report

and he said to his friends. Dick, Dick, aren't you afraid that money will spoil it?

I just pray the suspectal I did it,

he said. I'll look a little bit at $2.00 in the Riverside Church treasury that you can draw to help these two men out. But he said don't come back and ask me for anymore

and said we mustn't spoil that thing with money.

I'm not a cleaner trade. Our destiny

have, Mr. Rockefeller has since said, has told me that from the beginning this work engages every entity. Nothing more affecting has ever caused his life. And he who has made a life work of giving away money that he should save for once,

this time I won't give.

Well, that's why that's Alcoholics. To raise our own money to publish a book.

Sorry for written action. The story of two From Here stories in New York among our friends, chipping in small amounts

in subscription money. We finally got the job done. OK,

a periodical national circulation published the piece and then came this month so that the at the end of four year when the book had just appeared, the book itself was bankrupt. Every one of us was quote A. A was very, very poor, and thank God that was so.

We had a hard struggle through 1939. In that year, however, The Plain Dealer in this town caused a A by its good sightings to grow so fast here. They proved that we could become large, we could become strong, we could recover in numbers. That was the great news back here in 19140. Mr. Rockefeller, who we hadn't heard from, Ben 37,

suddenly said. I'd like to give a general

to tell my friends about this Alcoholics Anonymous movement.

Again, we thought our money troubles are over,

Mr. Richardson bought in electricity, meeting the list of the guests. I made a quick calculation and I said, Gee, these guys land up to about $2 billion one a month.

But again, Mr. Rockefeller gave him himself