Have the Traditions been widely
accepted?
Answer
When they were first written in early 1946
as tentative guides to help us hang together
and function, nobody paid any attention
except a few "againers" who wrote me and
asked what the hell they were about.
Nobody paid the slightest attention but
little by little as these Traditions got
around we had our clubhouse squabbles, our
little rifts, this difficulty and that and
it was found that the Traditions indeed did
reflect experience and were guiding
principles. So they took hold a little more
and a little more so that today the average
A.A. coming in the door learns at once what
they're about, about what kind of an outfit
he has really landed in and by what
principles his group and A.A. as a whole are
governed. (Transcribed from tape, Fort
Worth, TX, 1954)
