The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-31
RAPER HAS
WILD SUNDAY
IN SCOTLAND
DiSSipates on Ice Cream anr
Smoking-Re voIutioniStS
Play Golf,
By JOHN w. RAPER

N w T1EhE I'm SCOILAND,
TAI Sunday in Scotland! Oh, Be
LII rea, where is thy sting? Oh,
Philadelphia, where is thy victory?
Spend Sunday in Scotland and IN
derstand why the Scotch have made
such wonderful records in war.
And still I can assure the Ameri-
can of Scotch birth that the old
mother land amt what she used to be,
amt what she used to be, not so
many years ago. No. indeed she
amt, and the Sabbatarians admit it
with a near-tear in the eye.
"Ah, yes. evil days have fallen upon
U.S." they say. "Oh, the war, the
terrible war;"
Young Scotland has decided to do
something on Sunday besides go to
church, take a walk and sit in the
house, and struggle Is on between
the modern and the old Scot
Sinful to Go Walking on Sunday
1t is difficult for an American to
understand what a revolutionary
thing a Sunday game or pleasure is
to Scotland. In the COS of the nine
teenth century DR.. Norman Mcleod,
one Of Scotland's famous ministers,
presented to the Glasgow PreSbytery
resolution that the people be al
lowed to go for a walk on Sundays
The resolution was seconded by the
Rev. Mr. McQuisten.
a movement was started to eject
the two ministers from the church
for heresy, but they were infiuen-
tial leaders and men Of great power
and the resolution finally was
adopted. And in front of a Glasgow
church today stands a statue Of DR..
Mcleod.
The open Sunday started by DR..
Mcleod has been growing. You
can take a ride in an automobile, or
l and s p. m, in an ice cream par
lor and eat ice cream Gf you can
stand Scotch ice cream) or eat a
cake and drink tea.
Sh! Sh. And there are three or
four golf courses in Scotland on
which few revolutionists play golf
on Sunday But that's all.
The Sunday ice cream parlor is
Scotland's greatest scandal.
They are utterly vicious" said a
Scotchman. They are undermining
the morals and health Of our
young"
In Search of Adventure
I visited half a dozen ice cream
parlors and found them to be Just
what an American would expect an
ice cream parlor to be. Then I talked
it over with the hotel porter and he
sent me to another place.
The shades were drawn. I en-
tered and found myself in a small
room, much like the one in the front
of the old-fashioned American saloon.
except that the show case was filed
with cakes, and shelves back of It
were filled with cigarets.
1 passed through the swinging
doors, into a room where there We're
100 or more young men and women
from IS TO the middle 20's.
Most Of the boys wore their hats
and everybody was smoking, except
ing probably half dozen girls. Four
or five girls were smoking pipes. 1
middle aged Scot. and a waitress came
up.
How about whisky? Nothing do,
ing.
Tea or ice cream it must be- I
tried the argument that I was an
American and safe" but 1t counted
for nothing So it was tea. and I
drank a cup while the orchestra of
four pieces in a gallery played An
ME Laurie" in ragtime.
No Other Place for Youth
DO you consider the moral at
mosphere of these places good?" l
asked.
Decidedly not" he answered. But
what else is there for young working
folk to do? Not all of them can af-
ford to go on an automobile or boat
excursion, and one can't walk all the
time. 1t is too cold to sit with COM
fort in the parks. The only place open
in Glasgow today is the Art Institute.
| There are no games and no places
to play games, so we go to the ice
| cream parlor."
NEXT-Wonderful tea and dozens
Of kinds of delicious cakes make Raper
! CT IN Coo+laN1