Evening star., 1941-02-14
Two Senators Give
Hearing 10 Women
Backing Aid Bill
Tydings and Radcliffe
Hear MoryIonders
Demand Quick Action

Convinced that much has been
said on the other side, 300 Mary
land women who favor the lease
lend bill gathered in the Senate
Office Building today and were
given hearing by Senators Tydings
and Radcliffe on their demands for
prompt passage of British-aid leg
islation.
The spokesman for the bi-par-
tiSan group, DR.. Katharine Jeanne
Gallagher, professor of history at
Goucher College, told the Senators
that I'VE feel that some of the dele
cations of women who have visited
Washington of late have misrepre-
Sented our sex.
I'VE wish you and the representa-
tives of other States as well to know
that being a woman does not pre-
vent one from being a self-sacrific-
ing citizen, willing to bear sacrifices
and burdens. We wish you to know
that the women of Maryland, by the
large, are looking realities in the
face and are choosing the course
that involves the smallest risk for
the entire country"
Prompt Passage Urged.
DR.. Gallagher urged prompt pas
sage of the lease-lend bill for 'our
present security, for our best chance
to avoid sending troops to some war
front, for our best chance of rea-
Sonable prosperity and for our flu
ture liberties and consequent well
fare of the rising generation"
Both Senators assured the women
that they favored quick passage on
the bill with amendments which will
safeguard the country's institutions
without destroying the detectives of
the legislation. The group was told
the Maryland members of the House
also are unanimously in favor Of the
bill.
While the delegation was gathered
from many Maryland cities and
communities, the majority came
from Baltimore by special train this
in the large caucus room on the
third floor of the Senate Office
Building at II o'clock.
Present Their Side of Issue.
Their spokesman required less
than an hour to present their side
Of the issue.
DR.. Gallagher said, eve are here
first, gentlemen, as American citi-
zens. asking the Senate to preserve
what is most precious in American
life in the quickest, safest, most
natural way. This quickest and
most natural way is by sending i'm
mediate aid to the only country
which holds out for our own ideals
our only ally, thrown into our
arms as an ally by Germany itself,
when Hitler formed the triple axis,
isolating the democracies and put
ting them together in danger of
their very lives"
This declaration was loudly ap-
plauded and at this point six or
seven women quietly left the caucus
room Other delegates were uncer-
tain if this was done in protest
or merely because the women had
other engagements.
In the group we're Miss Ida Kleze.
national committeeWoman for Young
Democrats of Maryland; Mrs. Lulu
Powell, Republican national COM
mitteewoman; Mres. Marie Colgan,
Democratic national committee
woman: Mrs. o. H. Williamson, pres
ident of the League of Women
Voters of Maryland; Mrs. Thomas
Tingley, president of the Baltimore
District, Federation of Womens
Clubs, and representatives of var
ious other women's clubs, civic groups
and Protestant, Catholic and Jewish
church organizations.
Mrs. Williamson told the Senators
she was convinced the overwhelming
majority of women voters both in
Maryland and throughout the coun-
try was in favor of legiSla-
ton to laid the Democracies already
at war"
She called the bill a substitute
for war, not a step toward war"
and rejected the policy of the isola-
tionists as perilous at this time.
Mrs. Tingley declared women have
a right to be heard on military mat
ters because the bombs of modern
war fall on women and children as
we'll as the soldiers on the firing line.
I'VE believe" she said, "the Eng
lish Channel is our first line of de-
fense and we urge you to send ma
terial aid to Great Britain with all