Bill W. telling the history of the Big Book

Now we're assembled here

in full price and in all the joy of it to publication. I first want to renew my

bank to all who have made it possible.

Jacqueline committed.

Least one of you,

the uncalled miles of travel that you've all made to request

to inspire me, to fill me with the warmth of your half hospitality,

to be with each other.

I'm grateful to the governor of its faith,

Mayor this time for their recognition that we are again, not only are you remembered, but citizens of the world. We want more belong. So these plans instead,

I'm deeply grateful to this hotel

and the owners office so we'll powers are effectively known so perfectly. Could you see that apt I mean you wonder how the hell anybody could stay sober on it. It has.

As for me, I in great gratitude

not only for dramatic open on your general the inspections that I received in 10,

but for what you are making possible.

For my part, drivers just as much the founder of AA as I already have the storm without who they think would have been.

I recall my gratitude

and I can find no better word to say it.

I think I'm on a bill for tonight's show with a talk on its Dish 12 addiction to a A.

But you know, just like women have the pride of him. Or at least seize the pride of changing the mile or make any such thing

is embarrassment

stopping Very active. I hate the predictions. 1:00 to 12:00 would be a little too great.

My heart a little as a matter of fact, business predictions or when they were first written back there in 1945 at Texas. So tentative guys out with the hang together and functions. No I plant paid any attention except the fuel dinners. Who told me? What the hell am I about?

No, I say this fight

by little by little as these traditions

got around and we had our

our group with

this difficulty in that it was found that the physicians indeed did reflect experience and regarding principles don't have all the more I had a little more and a little more so that today the average day coming in the door lighted want what they're about what kind of outfit he really has landed in by half principles is good and they as a whole

adult. But as I say, the second was all that

I'd like to spend some yards

and they will be a series of young cluster around the preparation of the good old book alcohol. It's not

some people reading book now they say, well this is the A5 olives.

I hear that. It always makes me shudder because the guys who put it together one of the damn bit biblical.

I sometimes thought of the drugs have an idea that these old timers went around and said almost visible Halos and long gowns and they were fully bleeding all boy how inspired they were. Oh yeah, but was like,

I phoned the book. Yeah, I ain't really started

in the living room of

Doc and Annie Smith.

As you know, I landed there in the summer of 35. A little group caught home. I asked Smithy briefly with it and he went on to found the 1st A A group in the world

and with all new group it was nearly all failure. But now and then somebody saw the life. I know it's perfect. I heard I got back to New York, a little more experience. The group started there.

Every time we got around in 1937, the thing had leaked a little over into Cleveland and it began to move South in the Ark.

But it was still all we saw in those years of flying blinds, a flickering candle and beep,

there's mine at any moment. Please not that

now. On this late fall afternoon in 1937,

Lithia and I were talking together in his living room and sitting there with a gas log,

and we began to count notes.

How many people had saved us and act in New York? Maybe a feeling sleeper? How long is they drive and for how long?

And when we added up that skull so it was a handful,

I don't know, 3540 maybe, but a lot time had a lack on enough really fatal cases of alcoholism.

Now that when we grasp the import of the small statistics

and I saw

1st man that this thing was going to succeed,

that God is prominent and mercy has strong new life.

The dark saves where we and our eyes have been and were still by the millions dwarf.

I never couldn't forget the election and ecstasy.

That stage is called.

And then we fell happily. Talk

Amrit. But

we reflected that

well. A couple of score on

but we've taken 3 long years.

There's been a moment later, but a long time hasn't taken just to cover up the handful.

How could this hands people? Why, it's message to all fellows who still didn't know

not all the drunkards in the world could come to Hackman or to New York.

Maybe. Maybe we thought we could go to the old timers in each group with them as nearly other volunteers find the sum of money somebody elses money for and say to them will now take a sabbatical year off your job if you have any. And you go to Qatar and Omaha and Chicago and the San Francisco to Los Angeles and wherever it may be, and you give this thing here and get a good start.

Is it already got evident by then while we were just about to be moved out of the City Hospital in Akron to make home for people with broken legs and healing liver took the hospitals were not too happy with that.

We tried to run their business perhaps too much and decide Trump rapidly noisy in the night and the rather inconveniences which were all familiar,

obvious that you have been such only a lovely Christian. We would have to have a great period of hospital.

And as that dream burst upon me, it sounded good because you see ice and down Wall Street and the promotions business and I remember the great sums of money that were made as soon as people got this thing out here. You know, the chain drug stores, the chain lottery stars, chain drive dry. Good stuff.

Why not? And why not make the dog?

No, we needed permission. I didn't stop the time we needed a scene of drunk tanks because I've got very clear

all clear to me. Father is a conservative cycle Yankee.

I don't think he was quite so fast for those items, but I was very insistent it would take a pile of all the finance all in. But after all, was this brand new life shining in our Dark World? We just squirted in the eyes of rich guys and made-up with the dog

he fires, We reflected. We'd have to get some kind of literature up to this moment now. So this program so far as I know was in front

and it was a kind of a war in the mouth video you was very history according to each man or woman's fancy. Are you? Well, in the general way we said, well, the Bulls have got your down boys and you got an allergy under the spectrum and you're hopefully if you are, you better get honest with yourself

like soccer. You ought to talk this out for somebody kind of a confession, you know,

and the automatic restitution for the harm. Instead, you ought to make amends and all that kind of business. And while you're playing it back to cook according to your life. Come out with the sum of the word of my program after that, huh? Far as I say, violations on that were already occurring. How could we unify this thing? Could we out of our time,

certain principles describe certain methods that have done tricks for us? Yes. Obviously, if this moment was the propagate, it had to have a literature so it's magic could not be garbled either by the drunks or by the general public.

So Bob and I reflected that late afternoon in 1937.

Missionary, cleaner, drunk, tank, cannibal.

Well, even by then, me and I have begun to learn that we were not the government of Alcoholics Anonymous.

I guess more than I already realized that

the conscience of the group,

the opinion of the group, why didn't it was an informed opinion and in the group's interest could be better than our own. We gotta consult folks.

Well, there was dear old they're all gone outside. His wife, Pete Henry, was there an accident? They'd let us be in their house after got out of the Smith power and got into theirs. And he was great friends.

The Akron book, that is to say it also had been suburb any straight lengths of crime. I think for this particular meeting was placed off about 18.

I'm faggy man,

Bob and I told them,

and that we were within spite of success

as we thought this thing might go on and on and on, that a new life indeed was shining in our dark club. How could this ride be reflected and transmitted without being distorted? And

at this point they turned the meeting over to me.

I'm being a salesman. I set right to work on them. Drunk tank and subsidies for the missionaries. I was pretty poor then

and we touched on the book

and the root contents consisted of 18 men, good and fools.

I am the good and full man. You could see right away where them skeptical about it all,

all with one voice because let's keep it simple.

This is going to bring money out of this thing.

This is going to create a professional plan we don't all be on.

Well, I counted that's a very good ice block to what you say, but even within gunshot of this very house alcohol to dying like fraud. And if this thing doesn't move any faster than heads in the next in the last three years, it may be another 10 before it gets to the outstanding.

How in God's name are we going to carry this message to us?

We've got to take some kind of thing. We can't keep it so simple. If it comes American and get complicated, we can't keep it so simple. It won't propagate itself

and we gotta have a lot of money to do these things.

Dolly dirty myself to the Admiral, which was considerable in those days.

We finally got involved in that little meeting and it was a mighty close vote.

That's the majority of maybe two or three,

the meeting said, with some reluctance. Well, Bill, if we need a hard goal,

guys are back in New York where there's plenty of it and you're lazy.

I've been waiting for

no ice cream back to the great city and I began to approach some people of new music

and describe this tremendous thing that had happened

and it didn't seem doctor malice to the people remains at all, he said. While 35 before he drunk, so not

they had covered him up before now, you know. And besides Mr. Wilson, don't you think it's kind of sleeping up the shavings? I mean, I mean, wasn't there something for the Red Cross

with all of my multi solicitation? I got one power of fleas from the gentleman away.

Well, I began to get blue

and wanted to get that blue on my stomach picked up as well as other things

and I was laying in the bed one night with imaginary altar attack. You'd have them all the time. I had one the time to process for it.

I said, my God, we're starting to death there at Clinton Street. By this time the house was full of house and home. In those days we never believed in charge of anything, for anybody, for anything. So although it was earning the money, I would be in the missionary in the grocery meal,

we got to have them got eggs, we got to have them missionaries and how we got to have them missionary and we got to have a book. That's the show.

Well, next morning I called in my clothes and I found my phone in law.

He is about the last president way, way back. The only one save of course, dear Lord. Well, I said I'll go off and stay left. So I went off to see my brother-in-law learn. We played our little time between patients coming in up there.

I thought in my awful bellyache about these rich guys who wouldn't give us any dog or she plays and glorious Santa Claus so well, I swear.

And, and it seems to me that somehow he was tied up as a Rockefeller family in their church.

And if you want, we'll call up the Rat Fellow offices and see if there is such a man. And if there is, is he alive and will he see it? Would you like me to do that?

Well, I hadn't played the last color of me so I said well sure, get my

on what Landers read our destiny sometimes past. Remember my brothers? Law said. I knew a girl and I think she had an uncle.

All the car was made instantly that came onto the other end of the wire. The voice. Dear Willard Races,

why does it, lovely Christian gentleman that I have ever known,

and the moment you recognize my brother-in-law, he said. Why? Larry said. Where have you been all these years?

Well, my brother-in-law, unlike me, is man very few words, so he quickly said to dear all up well this he had a brother-in-law was certainly having some success opening up junction.

Could the the two of us come over there and see it? Why certainly said they're willing to come out.

We go on Iraq, our father, we go up that elevator, 54 Flight 56, I guess it is. And we want pump in the Mr. Rockefeller portrait as to see Mr. Richards.

And here's this lovely, benign all gender

who never delayed

had a kind of shrewd twinkle in his eye.

I sat down and told him about our exciting discovery. That's horrific star for alcohol like that. It just get to work

how it worked, what we had done

and boy this was the first receptive man was money or access to money. Remember we were in this a lot of our personal office at this point

and by now, so we had learned that this was Mr. Rockefellers closest personal friend perhaps

so he said. Why, Yeah, My

when do I have left his name at the world? What are? You know, for a rising promoter, that sounds pretty good. When I have lunch with that planter, John D Things were looking hard. My ulcer attack disappeared.

Oh, gentlemen. And we've all these things, Gannon boy. So warm and kind and friendly.

But what was the lunch? He said, well, now Mr. Wilson or Bill, if I can call you that, said what do I do have a larger meeting Wednesday, some of my plans. And there's Mike Amos. He's any advertising fenders, but he was on a committee that recommended Mr. Rockefeller drop the

Paul Baker and Eric Lloyd kept looking at Miss Rockfall, his real estate and here's Miss Scotty sermon the board up the Riverside Church. And he said a number of people like that. I believe they'd like to hear this song

tell her meeting was arranged

and it fell on a winter's night

late 1937. I didn't mean anyone at 30.

We called in postpaid, a couple of dark macarons that they included, of course, adding the protection. I came in with the New York contingents

four or five,

and our advice, what we were uttered into Mr. Rockefeller's personal story room right next door, right next to his office.

And I thought to myself, well, now this place is really getting hot. And indeed I felt very much warm when I was told by Mr. Richardson that I was sitting in a chair just vacated by Mr. Roberts. I said well how we really are getting close to the Bank Rd.

All that still First was there that night too

and he can't define what he is being hacked to these new friends of us.

I have each drunk thinking of nothing better to say. Well, each other told our stores drinking and recovery,

and these folks listen. They seem very definitely impressed. So I could see that the moment for the big touch was coming.

That's all. I gingerly bought off the topic of the drop tank, the toxicized missionaries, and this question of the book or lyrics.

Well, God knows in a mysterious way and wanted to perform,

but it didn't look like a wander to me when Mr. Sky,

head of a large engineering firm and chairman of the Riverside Church, Lufthansa. And up to this point,

this has been my work of goodwill only. No plan, no poverty, no paid people, just one carrying the good news to the next. Isn't that true?

And may it not be that that is where the great power of its society lost.

Now, if we stop the Doctor, why did not alter whole character? We want to do all we can. We're gathered for that. But what if we want?

Well then the salesman all

Dave met the Scott the Rust and we said why Miss Scott, their own party of us? It's taken three years,

why millions at the Scotland Rock before this thing ever gets told? Unless we have my hand locked out.

And we made out our faith at last with these gentlemen for the missionaries, the don't thank the vote.

So one of them volunteered to investigate us right care. And since full Doctor Bob was harder up than I was, and since the first group and the typical community situation was in Akron, we directed their attention out there.

And Frank Amos, still a trustee in the foundation, at his own expense, got our friend, went out of the Akron, made all parts of preliminary inquiries around town about Doctor Bob

report for God, except the was drunk and recently got over. He visited the little meeting out there. He went to the Smith cop and he came back with what he thought was a very modest project. And he recommended to these friends of ours. Well, we can have them at least. It's just a total amount of money. At first they took $1000, something like that.

That would clear off Marty John Smith. Place it was get us a little rehabilitation place. We should put Doctor Smith in charge.

We could subsidized a few of these people or briefly until we got some more money and we could, you know, it would start to chain of hospitals and we'd have a few missionaries. We could get busy on the boat. All the mere 30,000 bucks. Well, considering the kind of money we were backed up against, that did sound a little small. But you know, one thing leads to another. It sounded real good. We were we were real glad.

Let the weather breakfast in our original contract and took that support in John Greene

Junior as everybody called

and I just heard what went on in

Mr. Rocco Red report call Willard Richardson back.

Somehow I am strangely stirred by all this,

this interesting immensely,

and then looking at it, find Willard, he said. But isn't money going to spoil this?

I'm terribly afraid that it was,

and yet I'm so strangely stirred by it

that came another turning point in our destiny,

one that man whose business is giving away money, said the Willard Richardson. No, he said I would be the one to spoil this fun with money. You say these two men who are heading into a little

flat,

awkward $5000 in Riverside Church treasury. You folks can form yourselves into a committee and drawn as you like, but please don't ask me for anymore. But I want to hear what goes on.

Well, the 50 time is then shrunk to five. We raised the mortgage on Smith, his house, for about 3 grand. I'd left two. Smithy and I commenced falling on that, too. Well that was a long way for training on drug tank boxes.

What confu would we do?

Well, we had more ladies with our newfound plant.

Amos Register, Scott Chapman and those guys

who stuck with us to this day come out of now being gone

and spider Mental Art for his advice. We again convinced these folks that's it. They didn't Llama. What could you do with that?

No one of them proposed. Well, why don't we form a foundation? Something like a foundation?

Well, I said I hope it'll be like that with respect to mine.

And then one got a free lawyer from Heli, he'll work for, I don't know, was interested in the thing. And we don't ask him to draw an agreement of truck, a truck or something to be called the Alcoholic Foundation.

Why we pick that one, I don't know. I don't know whether the foundation was our heart. It was the Alcoholic Foundation

Foundation and the lawyer was very much confused because in the meeting in which we formed the foundation we made it very plain that we drunk did not wish to be in the majority. We felt that there should be non Alcoholics on the board and they ought to be in a majority of one.

Well indeed. February lawyer What is the difference between an alcoholic and an alcoholic? And one of my drugs doesn't last. A non alcoholic is a guy who can drink,

and alcohol is a guy who can't write. Well, there's a lawyer. How do we say that? Legally, I wouldn't know.

We have a foundation and a board which I think the enemies of about 7 consisting of four of these new plans, including my brother-in-law, Mr. Richardson, Gentleman Amos, and some of us drunk. I think Smithy went on before, but I kind of clearly stayed on thinking, well, it would be more convenient later on.

So we had this wonderful new foundation. These friends, unlikely to rock color, were told that we needed a lot of dull and saw our salesman around the arc started. The solicitors solicit Samar again from the very rich and we had a lift on them

and we have credentials and letters from friends of message on the Iraq. I asked you, Sir.

The Foundation is informed in the spring of 1938 and all summer we solicited the letter. Well, they were either informed, or they preferred the Red Cross, or some of them thought the drugs were discussed.

We didn't get one damn cent in the whole summer of 1938. Play Pop

Well meantime we began to hold and they were commisilation. I'm getting no doll partly the mortgage and what was slipping me eating away at it's a 5 grand that about going up the slope and we were all still involved again. But he couldn't get it practiced back either, because he was a surgeon and nobody liked to be carried up by an alcoholic surgeon, even if he worked for years.

Now things were top all around No 4.

Well, what would we do? The one day, probably in August 19138, I forgot that the foundation meeting

a couple of chapters of a proposed book in Ross and in mineograph. As a matter of fact, we've been using chapters of this proposed book along with some recommendations of a couple doctors down at John Hopkins to try to put the bite on the rest. And we still have these two book chapters kicking around and

don't my name is dead one now I know the religious editor down there, old friend of mine, Gene actually said, why don't you take

two book chapters, your story and the introduction to the book down there and tell them the Gene see what he thinks about.

So I took the chapters down.

It's my place. 5 Jane was since the kind of great plan of ours, look at checkers. And he said, why? He said Mr. Wealthy said, could you write a whole book like this? Oh, I said,

well, it's more talk about it. I guess he wants him and show the Canfield the big boss now. The meeting was handed The upshot wise and hypergenomated that they would pay me as the budding author

$100 in advance

money into enable me to face the ball.

Why is that awful good, you know about that? It made me feel like I was an author, a Comer. Maybe I felt real good about it, but after a while, not so good because I began to reason and so did the other boys. Well, if this guy Wilson, he sucks the 1500 bucks while he's a doing this book, after the book gets out, it'll take a long time to catch up. And if this thing gets the publicity, why don't we go to deal with the inquiry?

And after all, what the lousy 10% royalty anyway? Well, the 1500 still look pretty big to me.

Now we talk too. Now here's a fine publisher like Harvard. But if this book, if and when done, should prove to be the main textbook for a A why would we want our main means of propagation in the hands of somebody else? Shouldn't we control it?

Well, at that point the book project really began to get positive, began to take off.

We'll try this on separate foundation.

No, I had a guy helping me on this thing who had red hair 10 times my energy and some from all he was because Bill is something. Come on with me. We walk into a stationary store. We buy a cat of plant stock certificates. We ride a car to talk about them. Work publishing company

value $25.00. So we take a patter these stocks, but we didn't buy it or incorporate it in several years.

We took this

next day a meeting. Why? You shouldn't mix money with spirituality, you know,

And we tested the driveway. Look, there's a thing has got to be a thing.

He'll take a third of this thing for service is rendered. I, the author, I'll take the 3rd for services granted. And you can have a surrogacy start because it's 525 if you'll just start paying up on your stock. You only want one share. It's only $5.00 a month, five months. See,

and a drunkard gave us a stormy luck.

What the hell?

You made me say. You're asking us to buy stock in the book that you ain't written yet.

I saw her with that.

If I'll put money in this thing, why couldn't you? I pretend it's going to be a good book,

but the drug still gave us the Sonic.

Had to pick up tomorrow.

Oh, we said, well,

we've been looking about plenty cost of the books, boys. We get a book here, you know, 400, four, 150 pages. You want to sell for about 350. Now back in those days we found on inquiries and printers that that 350 book could be printed for $0.35

making 1000% file. Of course we didn't mention the other expenses, just credit cards. So all I just think of it when these books move out in car Rd. Lot

We're playing them for $0.35 and we're selling them direct mail 350 Can you load the drunk still gave it to me no stop.

Well, we figured we had to have a better argument than that, Barber said. It was a good book you we could clean them for $0.35 and sell them for 3:50. But how are we going to convince the drugs that we could move Kylo locks millions of dollars?

So we get the idea. We'll go to the readers side

and we got an appointment with Mr. Kenneth Payne, managing editor up there. See, I never forget the day we got off the train up to Pleasantville and went over to his office, Oxygen. We excitedly told him the story of this wonderful budding society. We dwelled upon the friendship of Mr. Rocco and Harry Emerson, project and all. We were traveling in good covering of Spain. And the society, by the way, was about the public textbooks then in protest of being written.

And we were wondering that the pain if this wouldn't be a matter of tremendous interest to the rated divers,

having in mind as far as Reader's Digest had a circulation of 12 million readers. And if we could only get a free ad of their common book and the Readers Digest, we really would move some.

Well, Mr. Paints said, this sounds extremely errors. I like this idea. Why, I think it will be an absolutely ideal,

ideal piece for the dice. Well, how come do you think this new book will be out, Mr. Wilson? Well, I said. We got a couple captures written

if we can get right,

you know, probably this being, let us say, October or we ought to get this outfired April next May.

Why, at the same said I, I'm not sure that I just would like anything like this, Mr. Wilson, he said. I'll take it up with the editorial bar.

And he said, one, the time is right and you've got all that into shoot, come on up. And we'll put a special feature right on this thing and we'll tell all about this style.

And then like the motor spine said, But Mr. Payne, will you mention the new book in the piece? All the artists with pain mention the new book. That's all we need. Then we went back to drugs and said, now look, boys, there are positively millions in it. How can you make half percent? It's going to be a good one.

We buy them for $0.35 from the printer we found for 350. The Readers Digest is going to give us a free ad and AP and boys they'll move out by the car.

And after all we only need 4 or 5000 bucks. So then we began to sell shares that was publishing not yet incorporated by 25 dollars $5.00 a month to poor people. Some people could buy as many years. One guy bought 10 shares.

We saw the two shares of non alcoholic and my promoter friend who was to get a third interest was a very important man in his transaction because he went out and kept collecting the money from the drunk so that little Ruthie Hawke and I could keep working on the book and solo it would have to groceries, although she was still working in that department store.

So the preparation stopped and the more chapters were done when we went into a a meetings in New York with these chapters in the Rock.

Well, it wasn't like Chicken in the Rock. The boy didn't eat those chapters up. I suddenly discovered that I was in this horrific Whirlpool of argument.

I was just the umpire and finally had to stipulate while Bollinger over here, you got the holy rollers and say we need all the good old fashioned stuff in the book and all we're hearing the comedy. We got to have a psychological book and that never cured anybody. And they didn't do much with drugs in the missions. So I guess you'll have to leave me just to be the umpire. I'll scribble out some rocks here and show them here. Let's get the comments in.

So we bought lead and died our way through one chapter after another.

We sent them out to Akron and they were peddled around and there were terrific castles about what should do in this book and whatnot. Meanwhile, we set drunks to writing their stories or have a newspaper people that we had to write stories forum to go on the back of the book. We had no idea. We'd have a text, you know, and then we'd have stories all about the drunks who were staying sober. In fact, move it up. So then came that night when we were up around that chapter 5,

you know, I've gone all on about myself, which was natural after all. And then we their little introductory chapter and we dealt with the agnostic and we described alcoholism. But before we finally got up to the point where we really had to say what the book was all about. Now this field work

well as I call you. It was a six step program. Then

on this particular evening, I was lying to bed in 23 wondering what to do for this next chapter be about. The idea came to me. While we need a definite statement of concrete principles that these drugs can't wiggle out from, can't be any wiggling out of it for you at all. And this six step program has two big gaps in between. They'll be wiggling up. Moreover, if this book goes out to distance readers, they have got to have an absolute explicit program by which to go

well. Well I was thinking these thoughts and while my imaginary alter was painting me

and while I was mad at hell as he's drunk because the money was coming in slow some had to stop and weren't paying up.

A couple of guys come in and they gave me a big argument and we yelled and shouted

and I finally went down and lay down the bed with my altar. And I said for me, well, with a pad of paper, but the pad and I reached the bad. And I said, well, now you've got to break this program up into small pieces so they can't wiggle out.

So I started life trying to bust it up in a little piece,

and when I got the piece, he said down on that piece, yellow paper, I put numbers on. I was rather agreeably surprised when it came out at 12. I said, well that's a good significant figure in Christianity and Mystic Lord.

Then I noticed that instead of leaving the God ideas of the last I got it up front, but I didn't pay much attention to that.

Let's play God. Well, next meeting comes along. I've done on going on beyond the steps trying to amplify them in the right side chapter and I took that chapter was a step in the meeting and before I pandemonium broke loose. What do you mean by changing the program? What about this? What about that? This thing is overloaded with God. We don't like this. You got these guys on the knees, stand them up.

A lot of these got the kids that being got, unless they got out of it. That's where the arguments we had. Well, how is that terrific asshole about the 12 steps? There did come a tense strike.

That argument caused the introduction of the phrase, which has been a lifesaver by thousands. It was certainly none of my doing. I was on the fire side. Then you see, still suffering from this big hot flashing line. The idea of God, as you understand Him, came out of that perfectly for all his eyes, and we put that into the

well. Little by little thing ground on, and little by little the drunk put in the money, and we kept an office open over North, which was the office. It was a funk business that I tried to establish my friend. Then

I'm on your handle all the time selling little Lucy heart work for an old pay. We gave her plenty of stock in the work publishing. Of course, he'll tell you how to do is tear it off. The past 525 have a weak power right here.

Oh, y'all around about January 19139

somebody said well have we better check this thing out? And we got to kind of make a pre publication copy of monolithic or mini glass copy of this text and a few of these stories of these cement. Try it out, you know, on the preacher, on the doctor, Catholic Committee on Publications, psychiatrist, policeman, fishwise, housewives, drunk, everybody just to see if we got anything that goes against the grain in any place

and also to find out if

we can't get some better ideas here. So it considerable expense where you've got this pre publication copy main and we pedal it around and the comments came back. Someone was very helpful and went to my other places to the Catholic Committee on publications in New York. And at that time we had only one Catholic member to take it there and he just got out of the asylum and hadn't had anything to do with publisher was preparing the book

and all that great surprise.

It's a promising people, something about Iran.

Why else does the book this past month and the story came in, Somehow he got him edited,

somehow he got the galley together and we got up to the printing contract for me when I was drunk. She'd been kind of slow on those subscription payments, they're saying. A little further on, I was able to go up to Charlie's town, where old Doc Silkworth held sports. Charlie believes in our minded land,

so he had put the flood on Charlie for 2500 spots. Charlie didn't want it stopped, he wanted a promissory N on the boat not yet listed. Don't we catch Charlie for 2500 which we loaded around to the alcoholic foundation such as the taxi. That's to understand

so alcohol we had gone in supporting 3 hours in an office to do this job in these nine months upwards of $6000 and the month of the till was getting very low. Well, we still had to get it planted. So we got the Cornwall class to logic putter in the world where we've made previous inquiry and we

act about plenty and Oh yes, they'd be very glad to do it. And how many folks would we love? Well, we said that's very hard to estimate. Of course, our membership is very small. It's present. Fine, we want to tell many the membership. But after all, the Readers Digest is going to put a quota virus to 12 million liters. That book should go out of Carlos Mr. Fund.

This prayer was none other than they're all mixed black. One of our great friends and Mr. Blackwell said, well boys, how much of A down payment going to make? How many books would you like if I did? Well, we said we'll be conservative like 25,000 on justice time

and Mr. Blackwell said well, what you're going to use for money. Well, we said well we won't need my time, maybe a few $100 on account. Be all right with you Mr. Blackwell. I told after all, we're traveling very good. You know, all the friends, Mr. Rockefellers and all that. So Michael started putting the 5000 books place for Maze and the galleys were red.

All of a sudden we saw annoyed and started,

shall we go up to the Raiders target? We walk in on Mr. Kenneth Payne and we said Mr. Payne, we're already shoot,

and Mr. Payne said shoot one.

Oh yes, he said. I remember you, Mr. Parkinson, Mr. Willis, you always a gentleman up here last ball, he said. I told you that I thought the Readers Digest would be interested in this new work and in this book.

I said right at the order here. I consulted our editorial board in the migration part. They didn't like the idea of someone I forgot to tell you

or we had the drop list 4500 bucks in it. Charlie Town hook for 2500 bucks

on the cop with the printer maybe $500.00 left in the bank. What in the dose for the governor. Well this fella Morgan my I'm a good looking Irishman that is taking the books or Catholic committee on publications had been and earlier time good at math. He said. I know Gabriel here and Gabriel here is putting on these 3 minutes hot plug programs on the radio, he said.