Trail-Hitters

Many a U. S.. politician, fat or lean, wise or lard-headed, hit the 1940 trail last week:

>In Los Angeles, New Hampshire's blue-eyed, chunky Senator Styles Bridges resumed a national tour. Ohio's Senator Robert Taft plodded through the Midwest. Michigan's Vandenberg sawed wood, kept mum in Grand Rapids. Texas newshawks held an "Evil Old Men's" dinner in honor of John Garner. In Baltimore, Montana's Senator Wheeler said pretty things of Franklin Roosevelt. In New York City, Thomas E. Dewey polished up a GOPresidential bandwagon, prepared to start it rolling in Minneapolis Dec. 6.

>Cadaverous William Gibbs McAdoo praised Franklin Roosevelt to the 1940 skies, demanded a third term for him. Mr. McAdoo's eulogy (he is the New Deal beneficiary of a $25,000 job as head of the American President Lines--second highest paid Government post) roused no ripple of surprise in Washington.

>To the sarcastic wonder of many a dissident Republican, John D. M. Hamilton, GOP National Committee chief, announced he was run down from overwork, was taking a ten-day vacation.

>In New Jersey, Mayor Frank Haguy nodded approval of Charles Edison, Acting Secretary of the Navy, as Democratic candidate for Governor, okayed Millionaire James H. R. Cromwell for U. S. Senator.

>In Missouri, the Stark-Clark feud boiled up toward Hatfield-McCoy temperature. Governor Lloyd Crow Stark, New Deal 1940 candidate for Senator, and present Senator Bennett Champ Clark began active electioneering for control of the Missouri delegation to the 1940 Democratic convention.

>GOP women in Washington tried to scotch the notion that Republican women are rich and always wear orchids. Said Mrs. James R. Arneill of Denver, Republican Clubwoman, of a recent rural meeting: "There wasn't a person there who had ever seen an orchid. They had chrysanthemums, though. . . ."

>Hard-plugging Herbert Hoover toiled in Chicago last week, conferring, dining, planning with top Midwest GOP conservatives, left two impressions: 1) he will be "available" in 1940, 2) he would prefer Tom Dewey in the vice presidential role.

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