While contributions received by this journal increase in number yearly, neither the Editorial Board nor the Editors believe the automatic answer should be to publish proportionately more articles in every volume. In actual figures, Pediatrics received 650 manuscripts in 1970 compared with 626 the year before. The increasingly difficult question of which of these should be selected falls largely on the critical judgment of unpaid, unknown, andexcept for this one opportunity a yearunhonored reviewers. In 1970 they numbered 322, or only 8 more than in 1969. The names of all are gratefully recorded here.