English Translation

We consider this question to be so important that we would like to devote our own evening to it in the near future. Perhaps, after some of my executions, you will consider me objective enough that I could also talk about unfavorable things on my subject. Of course, there is and there has been. At my discretion, it is important whether there are any attempts in a community of people to promote favourably and to eradicate unfavorable things. At the time of the greatest oppression in the 19th century, pure idealists were known to the Czech cause. For opportunists, the conditions were not tempting either. The situation was quite different in the twenty years of independence. Right at its beginning, our historiographer Josef Pekar warned against the so-called chaff, the opportunist co-runs, and foresaw that it would take a long time for the unskilled to be removed and replaced by professionals. Everyone will admit that 20 years are here for a short time, and you, too, will probably not want to put on an overly strict staff. The disintegration of political parties, an unfortunate legacy of Austria, could not be eliminated so quickly. There have nevertheless been well-known achievements in the technical, hygienic, social, financial and cultural fields and they are visible as permanent results. Of course, a lot has already been done in these areas. On medical matters, for example, I refer to our surgeon Prof. Dr. Rudolf Jedlička, who is unfortunately one of the victims of Roentgendiagnostik 5X and therapy very soon different. He was a warm-hearted man and used almost all of his large holdings to create an exemplary cripple home, which bears his name and constantly enables many who would otherwise be burdened with welfare care, decent acquisition and thereby also life satisfaction. By the way, the founders of the world reputation of the Vienna Medical School, Škoda and Rokytanský, were Czech descent, as well as the well-known surgeon Albert there. ŠkoDA was an uncle of the important industrial founder in Pilsen, to whom he made the foundation possible by giving money. 13