TO A REPUBLIC'S CHILDREN
President Masaryk has been speaking to a great multitude of school children in Prague about the tenth birthday of the Republic of Czeeho-Slovakia. These words are taken from among the good things the first' President said to the children. They are wise and true. "I wish you health and God's blessing. You must take care to be and to keep healthy. It,is not hard. Be clean, do not fear water, bathe, swim, move freely in the fresh'air, and let the sun shine upon you. Keep rooms and houses' airy. ■
"Do not stuff yourselves with food, and drink no alcohol. :
"Play gladly, but, when you are being taught, work and learn with a will. We all have to work, each in his place and according to his powers. A good President is no better than a good workman. "You have heard of the disaster when a great building fell down. Whoever was to blame, it was due to dishonest work. If we love our neighbours, as we are rightly told to do, we must love them with our work,- not with empty-words. A life without sacrifice is not a. fine life.
"In all you. do, stick to the rule to do as you would be done by.
"Love your country, your - people, and your tongue. With all your fel-low-citizens you must live in friendship. Wo are all equal, and must all be equally free. We have no right to oppress anyone in anything.
"And you, children of Prague, take care, when *you enter her public life, that Prague shall be truly the mother of us all, the city of cities.
"Here among you stands, perhaps,, the future President of the ■ Republic. In thirty or forty years you, ; future President, will speak on, this spot to the children and to youth. Tell them then: Years .ago we promised the : first President, on this spot, that;we would in everything be guided by the motto inherited from our forefathers, flying over the Castle, 'Truth Conquers.' Hear how that flag lives! How it rustles and speaks! Guard it, and give it unsullied'to those who come after you!" ' ' -
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 85, 13 April 1929, Page 19
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