Milford chronicle., 1948-10-15

SlBHI-ldHS concrete
Z highway from New
s York to Paris-by
PECTER way of Alaska and
Siberia"
THATWOULD HAVE
THEM BUT IT is A FACT.
1t would have touched him
of and when Bubblehead gives
tongue you have got him. You
can steer him with questions.
But blew up and lost the
floor. Doris FleesOn and other
friends Of his have said they
knew all the time that he wrote
the gOOfy GUru letters and
agree with them absolutely that
he did but, If you will excuse
me, for a better reason.
For example, in the letter to
'Dear Guru," dated March IL, 1888,
where it says, II have been think
ing of you holding the casket-the
sacred, most precious casket"-I
know what that refers to. It re-
fers to painting of Old Nick, show
ing off the tWO-legged beard, wear
ing his little ding-bat Chinese cap
and chow mein pajamas and hold
ing up a little box that was planted
in the cornerstone of the lamasery
at the dedication conniptions. It was
full Of conventional voOdoo. Hair
combings, policy slips, boss-fix pow
der and about 88 cents in coins.
Roerich's son, Viatoslav, did a paint
ing of the old boy which hung in
side the lamasery and Bubblehead
used to drooI with reverent awe al
the sight Of it.
n. ., Then this letter
AW0" continues: "And
the have thought Of the
Stone new country going
forth to meet the
seven stars under the sign of the
three stars. And I have thought ot
the admonition, Await the stone.
We await the stone and we welcome
you again to this glorious land o1
destiny, cloUded though it may be
with strange, fumbling fears"
KNOW WHAT THIS is ABOUT?
ASK PAPA.
Old Nick used to tell Henry bed
time stories coated with mysticism
and, as one of the old hands of tht
cultural circle said the other day
'Wallace was unbelievably simple
He was childish. He loved to us
code names for things" Englant
and Japan were tigers and monkeys
Roosevelt the wavering one. TIL
state department was the old house
He was Galahad. Such a dope!
ROerich had written a thing
called ''The Legend of the
Stone" and Wallace had an emo
tiOnaI hOe-dOwn over that. He
soaked up ROerich's patter and
used it to suggest great savvy
about oriental religions, like a
brOadcaster jabbering football
jargOn who never even went out
for musical chairs.
He also impressed the member
of the circle as a man bounded b
strange fears. He seemed frigh
ened Of everything-of nothing, a
the time. Yet he would do the mos
stupid things and give himself re;
cause to worry over being foun
out. He seemed to think nothing {
lifting official papers out Of tn
: files of the government and sendin
them on to the lamasery. There we
one from Corden Hull which he
in my hand few days ago.
There was anothC
LetteF letter signed
From Hirosi Saito, IL
Co;to Japanese ambass
{ dor, on the emba
' sy's stationery, dated February
= 1885. promising that the Harb
D newspaper Nichi-Nichi would /;
l off Old Nick. Bubblehead had Sc
4 Roerich to Manchuria and Mongol
and this paper, a Japanese prop
ganda show, was giving him Il
devil. So Wallace sneaked aroun
by-passing the state department al
asked Saito to turn off the heat as
favor to him. Saito's letter land
4 on the desk of a confidential ass
ciate of old Roerich. Now it tur
s up to show what a blethering s.
e Henry was and how guilty RooS
welt was in picking him to be vi
= president for four years. HITLE
HIMSELF COULDN'T HAVE CRI
ICIZED THAT SELECTION.
And all his letters TO ROericE
s went through an intermediary
who found most Of them toe
silly for serious treatment and
a therefore just made digests O
l. anything that was coherent
It The digests went to ROerich
The originals remained in New
York. Now you know how the
letters came to be in one batcl
here.
In the two seasons that the A
America Football Conference has bt
in operation, the Chicago Rockets ha