The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-16
As Pegler Sees 1t
By WEsTBROOK PEGLER

By WEsTBROOK PEGLER
Copyright, 1s47, by King Features Syndicate,
Inc.)
NEW vORK, June Is This will be a
further installment of the progressive series OF
essa.s about the goofy gLru letters and the
strange personality and interesting assocla-
lions of Henry Wallace. Mr.. Wallace plainly
is a candidate for President OF the United
States on a third party ticket j. 1913. There
was period of four years from 1941 to 1915
when at any moment he might have become
President, in which case he could have come
under the rule of a fellow possessing all of
Roosevelt's dictatorial aggregate war pow
ers'' who undoubtedly lad messed around with
a cult of orientialists who adopt funny names
and some of whom recognize mortal men as
spiritual masters.
Just to give you an idea, here is a letter,
taken from a court record in a litigation in
New York over the ownership OF the lamasery
of some students of oriental philosophy and
art, a cult with which we find Henry Wal
lace undeniably associated. The lamasery is
a tall apartment building on Riverside drive
with an at gallery built originally to house
the Easter egg paintings OF Prof. Nicholas
Konstantin Roerich. He is a squint-eyed old
Russian with a two-legged beard of the
Chinese pattern who had a lot of people con-
fused around here for quite a while. Henry
Wallace was one of his pupils. Then Henry
turned on him. The cult addressed Roerich
as guru, which means teacher. or master in
the Observation-Disclosures lingo, and rough
ly the same as mahatma or swami. We
would get lost in a Himalayan fog and fall
down ! hole into the devil own private office
if we tried to straighten out the history of
their juvenile spats and tantrums in this cult.
This is from the court record in the case
of Roerich versus Horch, which was the bat
tie for possession of the lamasery where all
the original saints or initiates of I cult or
bund had promised themselves apartments for
life but without anticipating the big crash,
the depression and the process known as going
thr ugh the wringer. Horch is Louis L.. Horch,
a native of New Orleans, who had made him
self an armfuI of mol-ey as a broker in fer
eign exchange and had beco1 e the chief
angel, or sucker, in financing the building Of
the lamasery. To some extent, he was a
sucker. He was not altogether a dumb suck
er, however, for he got the building back and
is himself today the president of the Master
Institute of the United Arts, Inc. His wife.
Nettie S. Horch, is secretary and treasurer.
I keep asking him if this doesn't mean that
he and his ever-loving now own the plant.
He keeps telling me, no, that il is a non
pl oft educational institution and, anyway. it
is mortgaged for 81, 29O, 600. Well, what do
they teach by way of education? oriental
philosophy? Yoga, perhaps, or theosophy,
rosicrucianism or black magic? He'll, no!
Nothing like that, says Horch. Besides, he,
Louie Horch-a nervous but good-natured and
apparently very practical fellow never did
go for that business about The hidden masters
of Tibet. No, it's just education like, well,
y know, art and things like that. So that
makes it a tax-exempt educational institution
and Louis is the president and mama is the
sec'y-treas.
So he never did go for that guru stuff,
then?
Well, if not, how about this letter from
the court-record:
"My dear ones: Our gurus are fine but
I believe a little tired after teaching l. stead
lily for four months. Note what you write
about the piano. It should be first carefully
1t may be a h~-monica. Well, war;
riors, u Few days more and all our hats will
be in the ring. Our resourcefulness will be
tested and we will have to demonstrate that
the high trust given us by our beloved master
Gold whiskers.-ed) has not been in vain.
I'm love, beauty and action, forever united,
your Logvan.
"Porooma sends her love and Kisses"
I tell you I did not make it up. I didn't
make up the goofy guru letters attributed to
Henry Wallace, who certainly was a member
of the circle as I will prove to you. This
out of the court record. And this rec
ord contains a document called "Appendix A,
found in correspondence" which
states that "Logvan'' AMI LOG Odomar'' were
pseudonyms for Louis L. Horch.
Do you want to know WI t. Mr.. Horch's job
is" :te is the regional director for the states
of New York and New Jersey of the United
States Department of Commerce.. He has
over both foreign and domestic
rec in the great industries, markets and
ports of New York and New Jersey ,includ-
ing, of C. rse, steel. And he was elevated
to this job of regional director, from an in
ferior position in the same office, within a
month before President Harry S. Truman
fired Wallace out of his job as Secretary of
Commerce last fall for making that pro-
speech.
Wallace went out, but Horch stayed and
Horch says today that he really needs the
jub, although in his time he has been a very
rich man. Before he got into the Department
of Commerce he had been Injected with the
Department of agriculture on Sept. 6, 1888,
as a Aenior marketing specialist of the Sur
pl 5 Commodities Corporation. He was trans.
ferred to the Board of Economic Warfare in
1912, and later "got merged into
the Department Of Coz nerce, being raised to
his present commanding job in the depart
ment by one of Henry Wallace's last official
acts.
To get back to this Appendix A: 1t says
that other pseudonyms were used as follows:
IL Lau- M. L~ightmann; "Fuyama," I'm.
X" Amos Father I'M. M" and "guru''
for old Nicholas Roerich; Mother Ind TIA
RAJ for Nine. Helene Roerich, his wife, and
"Yuri'' and "Uri'' for DR.. George Roerich,
their son.
mates.
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