1 St. Louis Children's Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri
2 St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Granite City, Illinois
Recent international and national events have forced upon us a consciousness of the finite stores of natural resources such as wood and its by-product, paper. Thus we were greatly disturbed at the increased size of the January issue of Pediatrics. The enlarged margins and increased spacing neither contribute to the ease of reading nor to the conservation of paper. It is rather paradoxical that Drs. Lucey and Haggerty commented on the "shortages and rising costs [of paper]"1 in the same issue.