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Show 'TpHERE seems to be an opinion around that major league base- j ball's playing standards reached a new low in the season Just closed. This is a point hard to prove, and I pT'n1 doubt that it is i f true. g I In the ebb and 1 1 , flow of tha last 40 v ' m t I years, we've looked K V at a long parade of f A j stars. We also have J I i peered at a still I longer parade of - 4 j pretty sour ball clubs, and that goes ' S i ft for hitting, pitching 3 Gordon and fielding. No one can doubt that the four war years held back many a budding bud-ding rookie, lifted from minor league training to war service. Some of these were killed. Many more were wounded. All were removed re-moved from training action at vital years 19 to 23. This doesn't include such veterans veter-ans as Hank Greenberg, who lost five years, Bobby Feller, Johnny Mize and so many others who were halted in their prime. Many of these have had remarkable remark-able comebacks Greenberg leading the home-run makers last season; Ted Williams, three years away from baseball, leading his league in practically every department where a bat figures; Joe Gordon; Johnny Mize, challenging Babe Ruth's Incredible In-credible figure of 60 home runs in a year; not to overlook Walker Cooper. And what two seasons meaning 1946 and 1947 can you recall that produced a longer list of young stars: Ewell Blackwell, Ralph Ki-ner, Ki-ner, Yogi Berra, Bobby Thompson, Jackie Robinson, Spider Jorgenson, Spec Shea, Earl Torgerson, Bruce Edwards and many other first or second-year men? wniaHT PATTERSON Inflation Helps Debtors TIOSE who are in debt are the only ones who can profit from imlution, from cheap money. The United States government, as the greatest debtor in the nation, stands to profit most from the inflation we so greatly fear. The government has promised to pay some 260 billion t doUars to those who hold its bonds. In that promise there is no specif! cation as to the value of the dollar: the creditor is to receive. Runawaj inflation could make our dollar; practically valueless, but they stil would be dollars. The best gambl would be to hold on, if the govern ment does not call the bonds, unti the value of the dollar comes back |