Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-09-22
Points To Help
Wallace Gave
Divine ROerich
F ..GLER
By WESTDloOK PEGLER
Cop ri ght, 1913, by King Feat
ures Syndicate, Inc.)

ures Syndicate, Inc.)
New York, Sept. 2l.-Closer
acquaintance with the affairs Of
the noerich circle which dwelt
in "a tall joss-house on River
side Drive only confirms the
story of Henry Wallace's gullibi-
lily. However, one does begin 10
doubt that Roerich really did set
hm5sf up as a divine person
exl pit, perhaps, to Wallace, for
the purpose of making fool If
HIM and exploiting the lnflu.
en- which FRANKLIN D. Roose-
We. had granted him.
| am not now willing to be-
lieve that Louis L. Horcn, tie
soeculator in international ex-
c..ange who became chum of
Wallace and spent 10. Of no.
ney promoting, Roerich, really
fell for the divinity racket If
the Russian Mahatma.
Wallace put Horch into Sc
quence of jobs in the Depart
HiSitS VI 1nSl ilultuiG aIl1 N~'TU-
merce, of which he was secre-
tary, and when Horch suddenly
sprang a trap on Roerlch and
the sucker bond-holders of the
American investing public
mostly Henry Wallace's beloved
little people"-Wallace swung
in behind Louis to help III tie
shake-out. Roerich was In Asia
when Horch decided to elimin-
ate him from the situation, grab
the Iamasery for his own proper
ty and seize Roerich's paintings.
The books were dematerlalized
by some process mucl, more
practical than Oriental magic so
the extent of Horch's investment
and his profit is not known. Just
one day before an important
court proceeding in the litigation
for title to the skyscraper, Wal
lace released, by a sneaky pro-
cess, loaded news" story IN
sinuating that Roerich was a
spy. This came out of the De-
partment of Agriculture which
had sent Roerich to Asia os,ensi-
bly, to hunt grass seed. Its ef-
feet. if any, on the court, would
have been adverse to Roeritc.
Later Roerich sued some news
agencies which had handled the
story in good faith and Wallace
ran like peeping Tom and hid.
He was in terror that he would
be summoned as witness in tie
libel suit. In that case Roerich's
lawyers undoubtedly would have
had to vindicate the defendants
of malice but they certainly
would have shown up Bubble
head as the most egregious ass
of modern times. And a dirty
sneak beside. The press seems
to have been standing around
watching a shovel dig a hole
during the litigation over the
lamasery. The testimony, plus a
little enterprise reporting, would
have implicated Wallace in his
nonsense in time to eliminate
this appalling slob from the vice.
presidency in 1910.
However, the press is not
really to blame because it was a
real estate suit before a referee,
apparently no different from
dozens of others which were
kicked up by the deflation Of
the great con game in mort
gage bonds. And. BY hook or
crook, Wallace, Horch and the
New Deal lawyers managed to
keep Bubblehead's name out Of
the record to the very end
Roerich's lawyers did manage
to sneak in few references to
character known as 'Galahad"
and it was known behind the
hand that this meant Bubble
head Wallace. But there seem to
have been no nosey reporters
around to ask why he was called
Gallahad. Such a journalist
might have learnei that some
of the smart members of the cir
Gle Or cult delighted 20 rib the
poor sap and had told him that
everyone in the mystical circle
was supposed to have c'lltisn
name. The fact is that some Of
them did have them but not all.
Those who went for the incense
and Chinese gongs and flappeo
around in space took names.
Those who just joined for tn,
purpose of looking at Roerich's
paintings or listening to lot
of Bulgarians play cross handed
ticks on the piano or Saw crazy
noises out of egg-shaped fid-
dies, kept to their square names.
One day Bubblehead had
dropped the information that
when he was little boy behind
the barn in Iowa, an aunt Of his
had said he had a not4e soul
and would grow up 20 be like
Gallahad. Mortimer Snerd had
not been heard of at that time
The cult dead-panned this pro
position and took 70 calling I'm
GalIahad. So Gallanad he was
thereafter when the esoteric cir,
Gle chose up sides ond settled
down to do little serious musk
shifting to clear their souls Of
lint, clinkers and chaff. The
name "Gallahad" is signed 20
several of the goofy Garu letters
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