The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-18
AS Pegler Sees 1t
BY W~EsTBROOK PEGLER

BY WEsTBROOK PEGLER
{Copyright. 1s47, by King Features Syndicate,
NEW YORK,-Discussion Of the goofy guru
letters which we're offered as political ma
terial against Henry Wallace in the 1910 cam
paisn closed on the subject of oriental pseu-
donyms. Such pseudonyms were used by the
elect in the philosophical or pseudo-phllosoph-
lcal circle o. Wallace's friend and teacher
Prot. Nicholas Konstantin RoeTich. the Rus
sian you-name-it with the sub gum whiskers
and the squint eyes. One letter was quoted
from the record of a New York trial over a
disputed lamasery Of the cult. In court this
letter was identified as one written from
Claridge's hotel in Paris On Sept. 2, 1928, by
someone who signed himself "Logvan," and
said in a postscript that "Porooma" sent love
and kisses.
Ar appensix in the court record said these
and other pseudonyms were used by specific
members Of the circle, cult or group and that
..Logvan'' and LOG Odomar" were the pseu-
lonyms Of Louis L. Horch, at present the re-
gional director of the U. S. Department OF
Commerce for New York and New Jersey.
He was appointed to this job by Henry wal
lace when he was Secretary of
''Pcrooma," the record said, was the pseu-
donym of Mrs. Nettie Horch, his wife.
Below this appendix in the record w find
this statement:
'At the trial it was stipulated that similarly
fictitious names were given to prominent ana
internationally known persons who we're re-
ferred to in the communications between the
parties, which names, in some instances, were
suggested by those very same persons"
Some o. the goofy guru letters that were
offered to the republicans and to newspaper
publishers in the 1910 campaign, when Henry
Wallace was the candidate for vice president
on Roosevelt's c~oattails, are signed with the
initial CO. The formation Of the &C. seems
to my lay eye to be similar to Wauace's
veritable handwriting and three handwriting
experts have agreed with this impression Of A
layman. However, that does not prove iden-
tity of the handwriting because such experts
can disagree as tenaciouslv as alienists or
the official scorers at a world series. The
key to the goofy guru letters that came with
lhera when they were made available as po-
litical material said that Henry Wallace had
the pseudonym OF "Gallahad' in this cult or
circle Of the cd boy from the Himalayas and
Inner Mongolia.
Now there is absolutely no doubt that Henry
Wallace did play around with this cult. And
only today I visited an establishment called
The Arcane school at II West And street and
up so high that the elevators don't go all the
way and you have to walk the last flight.
There 1 Interviewed a white-haired party
about, say, 60, named Foster Bailey, the head
man. And he said Henry Wallace had made
inquiries about their philosophy or religion
some years ago. Then later, Mr.. Bailey said,
when apparently some of the member Of the
faith got to Dragging that Henry Wallace was
one of them, Henry wrote him to ask that
they stop saying that, because he wasn't. He
had just made inquiries ike any spiritual
window shopper and passed on by. 1t would
be just crazy to try to explain the Arcane
school in a few words, but in outline it seems
to be another one Of those which hold that
Christ was a very decent chap, in fact a
master, but, or course, not a god. In this way
most Of the islnatists Of the confidential or
restricted religions enable themselves to say
that they are not ani-Christian but actually
Christian.
Well, as l said, some Of the goofy guru
letters were signed "G' and / suspect that
some layman in transcribing the interpretive
notes made a mistake in writing that the e
stood for "Gallahad " I suspect that the pseu-
donym really was "Galad," because when one
of the lawyers asked a witness in the trial
who was Galad?" there was discussion or
the record. Then the stipulation was entered
II was agreed to asrrTne fh2t tHe w.
Lad testified that fictitious names were used
by persons of international prominence, WITH
out naming the persons or giving their pseu-
donyms. 1 can't see why the Judge let them
identify the other persons with their pseu-
donyms but wouldn't let this witness Identity
"Galad."
Possibly some authority on these religions
will tell me whether "Galad" has any. special
meaning.
incidental Nv. man. Of them have been holm
full They have written me several hundred
letters on the subject Of Mr.. Wallace phil
osophv as revealed in his books and pamphless'
hut T find that thew are no less sectarian
than Christians. They denounce rival masters
as takers and charlatans and claim that schls-
naterian homemade world apostates IRE
running beautiful truths with ouackery. They
come hard-shell and soft-shel, total-lmmer-
sionists, footwashers and sprmklers, N. E.,
M E., Catholic, Episcopal. High-church, low
church and camp-meeting hallelujah, and all
seeno aoreed +rc+ e-rno v~r" h'~H-cl"ss mos-
tiers. have appeared to mankind since we
crawled out of the primeva1 slime put that
none of them really was God. Then thev fall
to scrappine as ansrilv as the sects OF Chris
tians and about the worst thing In their vo-
cabulary is "table-tapper." which seems to
mean a quack spiritualist.