Birthday

President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, "Father of the Czecho-Slovak Republic," celebrated his 75th birthday and with him celebrated the entire nation, which adores him and has reason to do so.

Aside from countless messages from foreign lands and official congratulations from the Senate, the feature of a day of national festivities was the parade of 1,000 boys and girls, chosen from 300,000 children, to the Presidential Palace at Prague. The children from each region presented the President with a simple present and each child was presented with a small present from the President. Among the gifts the President received were: national emblem from Bohemia, basket of painted eggs from Moravia, a doll in Slovak costume from Slovakia, decorated plates from Silesia.