onal Play-ground Association, in the Annual National
Championships.

Anyone desiring information on the rocket ship or any other
type of model plane will be promptly answered by addressing
their letter to me.

I hope you will find room to publish this, as I like nothing
better than helping someone get started on my favorite
hobby, aviation. I have, however, several hobbies, including
football, basket-ball, tennis, swimming, boating and hiking.
I live within ten miles of the Great Smoky Mountains
National Park, and can see from the study hall window, which
I now am seated near to, three ranges of the mountains all
covered with more than ten inches of snow.--Richard M.
Evans, Box 305, Maryville, Tenn.

_To the Defense_

Dear Editor:

Some of the letters you have printed in "The Readers'
Corner" almost burn me up. Edwin C. Magnuson asks you what
you print there: only letters praising your magazine to the
skies? or occasional brickbats? Well, I might say one thing,
and that is: if you did print all brickbats, as he seems to
want you to, the Readers would think that your magazine
wasn't of much account if that was the kind of letters you
got all the time, and would probably quit reading it.

He also said he felt like quitting several times because the
stories weren't scientific. Well, if he can show me anywhere
on your magazine where it says it is a scientific magazine,
I'll certainly beg his most humble pardon on bended knee. He
also crabbed about your artists. If he can do better, I
advise you to hire him. He also says that the paper is
rotten, and that after a few handlings goes to pieces. I
still have all my magazines, and have lent them several
times, and the paper is still there. On his fifth statement
I agree with him: you should have an editorial. Also I would
certainly like to have reprints, as there are about six
issues I didn't get, and I imagine there are several other
Readers in the same boat.

Hume V. Stephani makes a very good suggestion about a
quarterly. I certainly think it would be appreciated and
would go over big. And Robert J. Hyatt, I most certainly
agree with you in your letter printed in the February issue;
and if this letter is printed (which I hope it is) I hope
you will see it, and