Czechoslovakia was declared at the end of October 1918, and for the first time the language agreed in this valley was the language of schools, courts and offices in a state. The new republic's constitution actually called it one form of a single Czechoslovak language, which Slovaks argued about for the next twenty years — but Slovak schools opened in numbers Hungary had never allowed. Hlboké became a place people came to on purpose, and in 1929 a statue of Hurban was set up in front of the church.Koncom októbra 1918 vzniklo Československo a jazyk dohodnutý v tejto doline sa prvý raz stal jazykom škôl, súdov a úradov v štáte. Ústava novej republiky ho síce označila za jednu z podôb jedného československého jazyka, o čom sa na Slovensku ďalších dvadsať rokov sporilo — no slovenské školy sa otvárali v počtoch, aké Uhorsko nikdy nedovolilo. Do Hlbokého začali ľudia chodiť zámerne a v roku 1929 postavili pred kostolom Hurbanov pomník.
