Well, we're getting around to the purpose of this business at hand. This AA is serious business with me. It should be. It's given me the privilege to make a choice. And I choose to throw my life with you folks. It's serious business as far as my family goes. It's lived in my home. We like it. We like every bit of it. It's a treatment for me for a threefold illness that's got to be taken at all times. And I don't know any way better than to explain the seriousness of it than to bore a max joke at home. This could readily apply to Vicksburg. Two Negro girls met on Main Street. Minnie says, how are you, Mamie? Mamie, I'm fine. How are you? How's your family? They's fine, thank you. How's your old aunt that was sick? Oh, she's dead, thank you. That's right. You did say it was serious. Well, this is serious business with me. And I don't mean perhaps. And I've got to have a frequent treatment. All the meetings and all the conventions that I can shove in. And I'm getting an unusual treatment tonight. I'm getting to hear a man that I've never heard before. And I want to give you Charles J. Thank you, Woody. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I would like to say, first of all, that it's a great pleasure for me to be here in Vicksburg tonight. It's my first time in Mississippi, my first time really in the South. And I wouldn't have missed it for anything. It's an honor and a privilege that I won't forget. And I want to thank the Vicksburg group and this convention committee for inviting me to come here and share this experience with you. And I particularly want to thank Catherine Ellis and John Evans for asking me through letters to come. Well, my name is Charles Jackson, and I'm an alcoholic. When we speak at these meetings, we always hope that we will be able to say something that will interest the newcomer. Something that the newcomer may identify with and see himself as a potential member of this group. But I like to think when I speak at these meetings, I hope that I also can reach the old-timer, or at least the not-new member, who has been giving himself a hard time in the…