However, on August, 1990 in a farewell party for Yosaburo TAKEKOSHI, who is going to Europe, one of the guest speakers, Midori KOMATSU stood and made a funny speech about being haikara, in which he said that a majority of the world were using the word haikara as a meaning of derision (pp.67-68), but it was not true, rather it meant being civilized or a clean, noble character of a person.
然るに、三十三年八月、築地のメトロポールホテルに於て、竹越与三郎氏の洋行送別会を開きたる時、来客代る代る起ちて演説を試みたりしが、其の際、小松緑氏起ちて、ハイカラーといふに就いて一場の演説を試み、世間多くは、ハイカラーを嘲笑の意味（p67/p68）に用ゆれども、決して左には非ず、ハイカラーは文明的にして、其の人物の清く高きを顕はすものなり。