Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 April 1950 — Page 2

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; 3 Group Aids Them As Well as Men

This first of a series of ar-. ticles on women in Alcoholics Anonymous follows a recent series in The Times describing the nature of AA, its member « ship and work. By CARL HENN “I'm not a. tramp. 4 cent woman.” More than holic has t defended herself and her drinking while talking to

Mrs. Blank, a member -of Alco~

holés Anonymous, who was callg on her in an effort to help her to sobriety.

woman alcos -

Mrs. Blank happens {o be one

of the comparatively few woman members of Alcoholics. Anonymous in Indianapolis, There are not more than 50 women currently following the AA program, compared to perhaps 700 male AA's here. . Both sexes are welcome in the group. It defines itself as a fellowship in which members share experience, strength and hope with one another that they may solve their common problem and help others recover from alcohol ism. Open to All

There is nothing exclusive

about the organization. Member- |

ship requirements consist of an honest desire to stop drinking and the courage to admit that one's life has heen made iinmanageable by alcohol. There are no dues and no

Photo by Liovd B. Walton, Times Staff Photographer.

Woman alcoholic . . . needs help but refuses to seek it.

ing before I took one,” she said. But the first: night I tried fit should have warned me that I couldn't be a social drinker,

made me irresponsible, although

he was pulling out. That scared stay sober. me to my senses, “At the same time, my daugh-

ter contacted Alcoholics Anony- to give others now, as a member “The stuff acted differently on yous and I agreed to talk to of Alcoholics Anonymous. me than it did on my friends. It oe member if he'd come to see it's terribly difficult to get the me. At that time there were only women whom 1 call on to admit

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And she has to have the right kind of help. 3 “That's the kind of help I try Wan on Formosa has “no hope

SUNDAY, "APR. 16, 1950 ; Metal Industries, In

~ PHILADELPHIA, Apr 15 YUP) | ~-Owen Lattimore in a speech-to-| night urged the United States to, disavow support of the Chinese | Nationalist Government. { Dr. Lattimore, a Johns Hop-| kins University professor and ex-| pert on Far Eastern affairs, has been accused by Sen. Joseph Mc- | Carthy (R. Wis.), of having been |

See World Report, Page 45 the chief Communist agent in the |

U. 8. and architect of U. 8, for

of the Chinese anti-Communist, “rump” government on Formosa the first step toward “dignified {and honorable” relations between ithe American and Chinese gov- = |ernments. | This can be done, he told the | closing session of the anpual| {meeting of the American Acad{emy of Political and Social Sciences, by “allowing those mem-| bers of the United Nations who {wish to do so” to vote to unseat the old Chinese delegation to the United Nations and seat a new § one. I Dr. Lattimore argued that the Nationalist government at Tai-

whatever” of reconquering the] But mainland of China, but is using American made planes to bomb populous Chinese coastal cities,

Photo py Henry E. Glesing Jr, Times Staff Photographer.

Firemen battled a two-alarm blaze yesterday which swept through the second floor of Metal

, ; : of if ; 3 A officers. There are only 12 steps 1 didn’t act wild, I just reactéd. prce or four women in the or- that they might be alcoholics, or icing damage and loss of lite Industries, Inc., 1420 E. 20th St. causing an estimated $20,000 damage. The fire began in a

to take as a moral effort toward sobriety. Many men have ascended the 12 steps, one by one, and have ‘gone dry” for what they hope is their lifetime. Why not, then, more women? “One reason,” says Mrs, Blank a cheerfui, well-dressed grand-

.alcoholic believes she is the only

peculiarly, “After about five years I began to drink alone in the daytime, and make occasions for parties where there would be drinking. 1 began to take too much regularly.

‘I Couldn't Stop’ “For five years after that, my

husband and my friends excused telling myself that I was. no dif-

mother, “is this: Kvery woman Me and put up with me. I Knew erent that I could do social there was something wrong, but drinking like anyone else, that

ganization. “You can imagine my relief

that they might need help. “Besides, they balk at the idea when this man told me that Iof joining a group which has

“that is almost entirely civilian.” 3 oi “This treatment results in fo, Paint room and flashed into another containing cardboard boxes, vacuum bottle parts and pulvercussing the Nationalist feeling of ized cork. China sharply against the United Eg

was an alcoholic who couldn't do gther women alcoholics as mem- " A YT ... . . : social drinking, that I was a per- pero States,” hie 23d. “The people think Jury Indicts Police Department

They loo kat me and size of the rump government on Tai-

son whose body couldn't stand ,,. yp and say: the effects of alcohol. , .

wan, as one that they abandoned, MIDDLESBORO, Ky. Apr. 15 Along with the 18 indictments Cash Register Test

‘Well, you might be all right, jn disgust. They attribute its abil- (UP)—Bell County deputies today

“All this time I'd been grimly; + 1m gure the others aren't ity to bomb and shell them solely began serving warrants for 176

very nice.’

“They don't realize that alco- pp Lattimore admitted that

persons indicted _by -a special

to its American supplies.” Grand Jury, including Police Chief

against the police, 63 persons were charged with unlawful showing of ballots; 39 with applying for -a ballot to which they were not en-

CHICAGO, Apr. 15 (UP)-—~What three bandits didn't know about cash registers made Harry Block, 52, a happy man. ot Block ‘and his sister-in-law,

Times-W (first row), Bi Carole Simo

Chrysle DETROI New Chrysler pension fundi today as toward a set day walkout | Workers. Although t mosphere wa end final aj possible. Ever dispute resolv

holism can hit anybody, high or gisavowal of. the Nationalist re- Guy Harrell and all 17 of his pa-titled; three for illegal voting; six

wcdecent.one.of her king. 1 didn’t know I was an alcoholic. there. was. ne.reason.why-l.could ro Hire rigor a election officials with allowing il-

wa ws

Other women AA's confirm this. The world. they say, credits

a--woman drunkard —with—every:

All I knew was that 1 couldn't stop drinking.

“When an emergency came up. with me, and-my husband knows attended a meeting of Alcoholics : «yt it would-be niuch better: vestigate «reports of open gam-..

not stop after one or two drinks.

sin in the book. Even the dis-' when I was needed, I went as {t We hoth realize that in the Anonymous.

covery that alecholism is a dis- [O08 as necessary without a drink case of an alcoholic, just saying

Tow.” "And they're afraid “Now I know what was wrong someone will find out that they've ideal for the United States.

that gime would not create a situation’ Mrs. Evelyn Pillar, 40, stood hopeThe Grand Jury, ordered to in- legal voting. !fully silent while one of he Seven operators of Middlesboro yan 4its-thumped a-key-on the rege

in Bell County; accused taverns were. charged with pos- ister in Block's store. The register

than presenting Russia with an bling

“They don't realize that most American made Russian satellite Chief Harrell and his force of sessing illegal liquor; nine persons failed to open and the bandits left

ease hasn't dispelled this attitude. 3nd carried responsibility well. that she ought to be strong Of their friends and all their rela- —a satellite shaped to Russia's misfeasance in office, saying they with bootlegging, and five with empty-handed.

Drink In Secret

Because of it, women afflicted °f relief, went to the tavern down has to understand that she can’t with a craving for liquor tend to the street where I knew the owner drink, not ever, because she can't Miss Nobody.

be secret drinkers. They become bedroom drinkers, closet drinkers hide-the-bottle drinkers, and they become lonely drinkers, Mrs. Blank’'s experience {llustrates the AA saying that “liquor ~doesn't care -who drinks "The wife of a well-to-do professional man and mother of two children, she never had a drink until she was almost 40 years old. “I waited for three or four years after our set began drink-

hen it was over I heaved a sigh enough to stop isn’t enough. She tives know they are drunkards.” TOMORROW: The

and his wife and knew they'd get me home, and drank all day by myself, “During the war, for about six months, 1 was busy with Red Cross and other work and did onty-soctal-drinking:— Then 1 be= gan soaking it worse than ever, and switched from a periodical to a dally drinker. { “Finally, my husband told me he’d had enough. He said he couldn't stand it any longer, that

The Candidates Say— Dan W. Smith, Republican can-'and thus hold down and try to!

didate for sheriff, running on a eliminate this dreadful menace.” George 1. Winkler, Republican |

pledge of cleaning up graft: “I'm} going to keep up a fighting cam-' paign right up until May 2. Anyone who can give me information to help expose the graft that exists will be a big help to my campaign.” 3 Theodore F. Rieman, Democrat-

fc candidate for sheriff: “If elect-|

ed, I am going to revamp our antiquated system-now-in-opera-tion, which is apparently useless. I will co-operate not only with every law enforcement agency, but with the public as well, with the idea that I can pinpoint and locate all known sex offenders

Local Rotarians To Attend Parley

Approximately 100 Indianapolis Rotarians will attend the 225th District of Rotary International Wednesday in Portland. Representatives from 24 other mid-central Indiana Rotary Clubs, which make up the district, also will attend. The conference is held to service activities of the past year and to make plans for increasing their effectiveness In charge of the Indianapolis Rroup are James MH. Carnine, V. M, Ousey, John E, Cady and Duff A. Shardelow, Harrison Jones chairman of the board. CocaCola, will speak. District Governor FE. Reed Abel, Winchester will preside. Thomas Macnabb, special Rotary International representative, Canada, also will speak. 8ix Indianapolis bowling teams will compete in thefdistrict tour. ney.

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candidate far sheriff: “I deny! categorically that; during my administration as sheriff of Marion County, I'had any part of ‘payoff rackets.’ Such did net exist when I was "sheriff of Marion County.” Albert C. Magenheimer, Republican candidate for sheriff: ‘I

dntend—to train men “to assure’

competent operation in all phases of the sheriff's office. Special training will be given all deputies in traffic safety, one of the gravest problems facing this community today.” JAP VOLCANO ERUPTS TOKYO, Apr. 15 (UP)-—Japan's volcano erupted violently before dawn Thursday, hurling stones more than 2400 feet In the air, the Kyodo News Agency reported today from Kumamoto, 1

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