Show KILTS INDECENT Think of Such a Thing as Tat Being I Said tow Scotchma Now York Sun When Scot meet Scot in Paterson nowadays each looks sadly and gravely grave-ly at the other and says in hol w tones Do you wear t Then they both adjourn to the nearest near-est cafe for a hoot and drink confusion confu-sion t6 the Rev Frank B Hoagland general secretary of the Paterson Y 11 C A 111 Ho gland has declared that the Highland kilt is calculated to bring the blush of shame to the cheek of modesty an to debaucji the innocence inno-cence of youth and that the Clan MacDonald Mac-Donald having once profaned the atmosphere at-mosphere of Assclation 1131 by the use of that abbreviated gament at an en teJtinment cannot be permitted touse the han again lI consequence of this the revernd secretary is nw having applied to him some of the most dreadful dread-ful terms in the Scotch dialect On the occasion of the recent concert concer given by the Clan MacDonald nothing was sad beforehand about the wearing of kilts and a number of performers appeared in the national costume I is not on record that any of the ladles present fainted from exceS of horror and though there were in the audience i a number of gentlemen prominent in religious work not a single ambulance was summoned to carry any of them away in a hysterical condition In fat the performance was so successful that there was an Immediate demand for a repdtition and Justice James 1Iaybu went to the Y M C A building to see when the clan could get Association ball again He was informed by the Rev Mr Hoagland who wore an air of severe disapproval that the hal would not be opened to the Clan MacDonald or any other oganizaUon indulging in dances such as marked the recent entertainment tainment Man alver cried Justice Iaybury what was wrong with > the Highland fngPerhaps Perhaps I should have been more accurate ac-curate replied the general secretary I was not the dance that wee objectionable ob-jectionable but the coscmes in which the men apepared Do you men he kits asked the I head of the commit e while an angry murmur arose from the other commit teC n I refar to the kilts replIed 111 Hoagland firmly I am informed that I kits arc indecent I Then the committee individually and collectively exploded and fled the air I i with bits of Scottish history When the storm subsided Mr Hoagland was sfl there wearing his Ipok of sad determinatIon deter-minatIon From what Indecent he repeated I have heard 1 think may say that a man clad in that costume exposes his limbs Ye may say more than that cried an excited Scot Ye may say he shows his legs An why not Bare limbs observed Mr Hong land A thing that would not be permitted per-mitted in the ballet That may be said Justice May I bury Im not a connoisseur of the 1 ballet myself 1 speak from information hasty interposEd the general secretary But the ballet is made up of women I and these are men All the worse insisted the general I secretary Why kilts are worn at Queen Vic torias court cried Justice Ma bury I suppose youl allow that the queen I is respectable i 111 Hoagland said that he had no I doUbt Queen Victoria wac a perfect I laY but he thought at her age she i should have better judgment than to allow such a degrading spectacle in her nresence Degrading spectacle raised another verbal riot Every Scot on the committee commit-tee broe loose The Tey Mr Chalmers wore em and he was as good as any Y 11 C A John Knox preached In them Valace fought in them Robbie Burns wrote his immortal poems in emits em-its the black oppression back again to forbid the wearing of the kilt They closed around 111 Hoagland I some one ha sounded the pibroch of the clan the general secretary would have been in peril of his life But he stuck to his guns Chalmers and John Knox were very good men he said but they lived in other times As for Burns he was animmortal poet Justice 1la bury at this point hastily gathered his forces and led them forth leaving the Rev Mr Hoagland triumphar on the field The clan will appeal to the directors di-rectors of the Y 11 C A to overrule the general retarys decision I is not the first time that kilts have I been in trouble in Paterson Several years ago Gilbert D Bogert of Passaic who is of Scotch descent was a member mem-ber of a grand jury which at the instance in-stance of a man named Beam started in to Indict a lot of Highlanders who had danced in ltit costume 111 Bogert says This Mr Beam was a good man and had been really greatly shocked and he had such control in the grand jury that he was carrying everybody with him and I saw the necessary votes were ready when I got just boiling hot and my rage got the better of my timidity and I got up and thundered out an opposition op-position and the voting showed but eleven votes to indict them and as it required twelve votes to find a bU my vote saved thO4il I had been in the war for the Union but the only time my legs trembled was when I found myself on my feet making a speech before the grand jury and I astonished myself that time and saved the countrymen of Bobbie Burns from being indicted and punished for appearing in the streets in bare knees |