The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-03
As Pegler Sees 1t
BY WEsTBROOK PEGLER

NJ ID = AN SNS
that other new dealers besides Henry Wal
lace and his protege. Louis L. Horch, were
friendly to the projects of Nicholas Konstan-
tin Roerich, the mystical guru or master
spirit.
Morris Leopold Ernst, Of New York, a law
yer, is a new dealer. He was associated with
Haywood Broun, in the organization Of the
the New York chapter, which, ever since
those founding days, has been heavily infest
ed with a plague Of communist. Broun, an
irveterate sampler, was confirmed a Catholic
shortly before he died. Before that, however.
ne had been a left wing socialist, AMI had
openly collaborated with the communists al
though he never was honest or brave enough
to be frankly one Of them. Not that it mat
ters except as it may effect your opinion OF
mis- character and strength. He had also prac-
ticed nudism. One of his colleagues in the
Needing heart profession said Of Broua that
he had worshipped at all shrines.
Morris L. Ernst's biography in Who's Who
in America says he was born in UniontoWn,
Ala. in 1888, and got his ABB from Williams
school. From 1909 to 1911, he was a shirt
manufacturer. From 1911 to 1915 his business
was ''retail furniture" in 1915 he joined the
law firm OF Grenbaum, Wolf and Ernest,
in New York. Since then has been "attor-
ney for American Newspaper Guild: Served
90 " 4AdJOl Id 9ud11ud III tdA1GdU
strike, 1884 "a racket strike in which union
gangsters terroriZed New York while the Best
police force in the world appeared to be fear
full and helpless. ed; drafted legislation for
Gov. Lehman new deal-Roosevelt governor
O. New York. ed on ms. and banking mat
'ers; Mem. N. Y. state banking board since
inception by Apt. Cows. Roosevelt and Leh-
man" He also wrote several books including
Sex Life of the Unmarried Adult and "Ul-
innate Power and is a texture before CLUBS
and cole
I find no record Of any war service in the
first war.
Henry Wallace also was busy otherwise.
What is the guiding thought Of this not at
all bashful nomine for greatness, who has
exercised a very strong influence in the con-
duct Of one union whose bosses constantly
extclled and appeased Moscow and persecut-
ed many loyal American newspaper workers;
who drafted legislation on insurance and
banking matters and held an influential posi-
ton On the board in control of banking in
the state Of New York? What is his attitude
tow ard insurance and banking, these indis-
pensable institutions Of the capitalist system
eminent? Is he friendly to that Avstem? What
which underlies the American form Of gov
eminent? Is he friendly to that system? What
sort of preaching would. club members and
politically calloW college students hear from
Morris Leopold Ernst? l would hesitate to
rote again particularly that this philosopher
and covert director of our destiny comes to
US from the shirt and Furniture trades but for
the fact that many of his own political col
leagues often disqualified me on the ground
that I was a sport-writer. l seem to have
ben more successful at writing sports than
Morris Leopold Ernst was at hiring others
to sew shirts for him, and at selling sofas
to neWlyweds on the honored if sometimes
melancholy chattelmortgage plan.
What is this new dealers attitude toward
capitalism?
For information on this point I cite a letter
from a court record.
The case was one in which Louis l.. Horch,
a back-slid new deal disciple OF Nicholas Kon-
stantin Roerlch, was grabbing back posses
sion OF the 24-story lamasery on Riverside
Drive known as the Roerick Museum and
Master institute. The term master" runs
through the projects and literature Of Roer-
icks cleverly publiciZed career in mysticism,
occultism, ~esoteric Buddhism and new deal
ism in New York early in the Roosevelt era.
He was regarded by some OF his cultists as
a master intellect and a "supernormal
spirit" Horch has frankly said that as, Father
Divine was God Almighty in his cult whose
lamaserles were called heavens, so Roerich
was God Almighty to his followers.
Ernst's legal role in the lti gaitonevr
ership of the temple is not to be explained
N a few lines, but he was at one time for
Roerich.
This letter from the court record is done
on the letterhead Of Grenbaum, Wolff and
Ernst. 1t is dated Feb. Is, 1888. It was ad-
dressed to Roerich at Magyar, Kulu, Punja alb,
India, which is the gurus address as given
in Who's Who in America.
MY dear Professor Roerich," it says.
"in behalf OF my partners and myself I
want to cordially thank you tor your letter
OF Jan. Z, expressing your qualification with
our efforts in behalf of the Roerich museum.
AS capital dwindles in Importance it may
well be that cultural movements will get into
the ascendancy: There is no doubt in my
mind but that these two movements. Capital
ism and the ''cultural' movements Capital
ticed by Roerich. ed) are sngagonistic to
each other at present. With kind regards to
you. Sincerely yours. (signed Ernst"
l will present some other new dealers in
this strange society. There will be Henry Nor
g~enthau's father, the old boy who was the
Ambassador to Turkey and seems to have
picked up some ideas on religion and Fate
III the near east. There will be Senator Bob
wagner, with a tantalizing expression of in
umacy with the circle. And there will be a
comic note in the association of Sol Bloom
the New York new deal congressman who
came on to be chairman Of our House Com
mute on Foreign Affairs. AS. snug as bugs
m a rug at the gurus lamasery on Riverside
drlve While the naive and unsuspectins Amer.
leans were going to ordinary brick and wood
church houses on Sunday and nrayer-meeting
ana vespers, never suspecting that dark
forces OF the Hirnalayas were hexing and be-
wltchlng them and rendering them incapable
OF unity and sound political action.
10 close 'today's lesson, 1 offer a takehome
thought about the new deal shirt-maker. this
ruler OF the banking and insurance systems
c1 New York. This adviser Of Roosevelt and
Lehman, noting a decline of capitalism in the
united States. 1 call attention to his srkind
regards to the boss OF an oriental and R1Is.
sian cultural movement notwithstanding the
TACT that Ernst recognized tie anita gonism Of
this foreign force to the economic system
the American form c* ~ovarnment