PLATTE COUNTY — sens! Una it ge na A an RE Ea OR AE EINES BE “Long may it wave, O’er land of free and home of brave” “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands—one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” THE Platte County Gazette By James G. Cleveland Tibbetts Telephones No. 1 or 281 MRS. J: A. WARD - Telephone 281 MISS BETTY CREASON Phone 272 MRS. HERBERT BUSCH Phone 107 Subscription Rates, $1.50 Per Year in Advance Entered at the Post-office at Park- ville, Mo., as second class matter un- der the Act of March, 1879. ISSUED WEEKLY 7 |According to James— ——Chapter 43, Vol. I1I—— April showers? Yep! J. Pluvius turns them off and on, careless like. Platte County Gazette—— | The world resembles a broken down merry-go-round in that there are a lot of people just milling around with | no place to go—especially in Europe. | —The Platte County Gazette— Every male person who attains the age of 18 is required to appear in’ person at the nearest Selective Serv- H ice Board and be properly registered. Platte Co. Gazette—— It is not uncommon for us to re- | ceive letters dated 1944. As a mat- ter of fact we write 1946 so much in renewing subscriptions that we are prone to do it in present business cor- respondence. Platte County Gazette—— Rainfall the past few weeks has | made the ground soggy and the fre- py quent heavy showeers we haye been | getting lately causes the rivers and | ereeks to go on a sizeable rampage, {0 inundating adjacent fields. It takes th time for accummulated water to be. disposed, so that planting in the low- pe lands presents quite a hazard. Iv Platte County Gazette—— A harmless and clever way of get- Po ting information thru to his folks C1 was in a letter to his father, C. E. Pt Hey from his soldier son telling his It dad that the aforesaid C. E. Hey re- | 83 sided just three miles south of the 14 prettiest town in the world, which Sst yas another way of stating that the & soldier was at South Hampton. Si —Platte County Gazette—— = } ' the “Str Col pr | ree ne LET US .CO-OPERATE TO DEVELOP THE COMMUNITY! It is a fair assumption that every newspaper editor believes in Freedom of the Press: But what is our con- cept of that phrase? Does it, in our thinking, impiy obligation and re- sponsibility as well as_ traditional right? Perhaps it would be well for us to- re-examine our belief in Press Free- ! dom and test it in our minds and con- . sciences in the light of the follow- , ing statement by a man who was will- | ing to fight and die for freedom. Per- | haps, if we do, we will have a clearer vision. of its true meaning: In a recent issue of The Nation ap- | peared a ‘Letter to the Editor’ which offers an interesting commentary— ., and perhaps a new angle on this sub- | ject of Freedom of the Press. Dated ‘Somewhere in Asia’ and ob- viously written by a serviceman, it d how Lt. Lowell Bready, formerly « reporter on a morning paper in weuta Cruz, Calif., who was killed in action in France, had saved enough money for a down payment on aj - ———— newspaper and, in the midst of war, ! Why not provide suitably equipped | playgrounds for all the children of « ‘che Parkville community? The Pastor ; t ‘ef the local colored church, Spences |e: Cave, leader of the colored Boy Scout | Troop or some other responsible per- | p :son could supervise this summer at |b ‘the Bannaker school. We would com- mend this to Commissioner Meek and .the Aldermen. } | The Platte County Gazette— I! Ss © noticed the animal ‘with thenew owner, paying an addi- -Hitler raves about his werewolves waging guerilla warfare while he re- mains holed up safely in his retreat. | That what he thinks in his mad mom- ents, Like the promise to the Ger- rean people that never a bomb should fall on his sacred homeland, or that fortress Europe could never be _ in- vaded, or the wonderful Rhine could net be crossed, etc., etc. Platte County Gazette—— We hear of a friend who recently sold a horse at a $25 profit to him- , self. The purchaser tied the animal while he listened to the seller rib him. Along came another man just then, and bargained tional $25 which is-a fine return on mopéy invested just a few minutes. Poppycock! !