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312 THIS DIFFICULT INDIVIDUAL
had organized and directed the United States Bureau of Commerce,
Navigation, Emigration and Statistics, which later became the
separate departments of Commerce and Labor. Although he
founded these important offices, his name is little known in Washington
today, because of his opposition to some of the monetary
policies of the New York bankers. He had represented the United
States at the Hague Conference, and was later United States Commissioner
to Russia.
Ezra realized the importance of Del Mar's contribution, and
began to publicize his work. He wrote letters to his friends, urging
them to read Del Mar's books on money. A Del Mar Society
was formed in London, and the firm of Kasper and Horton in
Washington began to publish small paperback editions of Del
Mar's books. This was the beginning of the Square Dollar series,
which is still handled by T. David Horton. Stacks of unsold copies
of Del Mar began to pile up in Horton's rooms, and Kasper decided
to retire from the firm.
A shy, thin, long-legged fellow, Kasper had turned up as a
visitor from New York City in the autumn of 1950. Because of his
desire to get some things into print, Pound thought him very useful.
Kasper later went South in search of amusement, and wound
up in Clinton, Tennessee. Pound had nothing to do with the subsequent
riots, the calling out of the troops, and the surrounding of
the schools with tanks and bayonets. This is merely part of the
American educational system, which is largely due to the excessive
concern of the progressive Deweyites with melodrama.
Frederick Morgan, publisher of The Hudson Review, sometimes
visited Pound. He published some of Ezra's work in 1950,
and he also brought out another of Pound's enthusiasms, Jaime
de Angulo, a California anthropologist who lived among the Pit
River Indians.
Ezra made few if any demands upon the young men who came
to him seeking instruction. He never asked where they had been to
college, which would have been a waste of time, as they were all
starved by the same diet. On my first visit, he leaned back and
looked at me, asking sharply, "What languages do y' read or
speak?"