Evening star., 1949-01-04
500 at Luncheon
Pay Tribute to
Mrs. Smith

Mrs. Margaret Chase Smith, newly
seated Senator from Maine, and
the National Federation of Business
and Professional Women's Clubs
paid tribute to each other at a
luncheon held in her honor yes
terday within an hour after she had
taken the oath of Office at the OPEN
ing of Congress.
Leaders of both men and wom-
ems armed services joined nearly
500 women representing Is States,
who overfowed the Congressional
room of the Statler to greet the
lady from Maine, first to gain a
senatorial seat under her own
steam"
Smiling and hatless, wearing
simple black crepe suit and a many
stranded pearl necklace, the Sena-
tor, a onetime president of the
Maine Federation Of Business and
Professional Women's Clubs, told
fellow club members that she could
never have achieved this high honor
without their help and laughingly
said that she had been elected to
the Senate not because she is q
woman, but in spite of it."
In her first formal statement
after taking office, the woman Sen
ator made a fervent plea to a
woman monarch, calling on Queen
Juliana OF Holland ito exercise the
power which is hers to stop the
lighting in -Indonesia."
Queen Juliana, by her individual
decision can prove to the world the
will and the power of women for
peace she declared.
At the conclusion OF her address
which was broadcast over a national
network, Senator Smith was pre-
sented with a bouquet made up of
225 kilograms from business and
professional women's clubs all over
the country. The presentation was
made by DR.. K. Frances Scott, pres
ldent of the National Federation
OF Business and Professional Wom-
ems Clubs, who presided at the
luncheon. DR.. Scott, in introduc-
ing the Senator, reminded club
members that women, who now
constitute more than half the popu-
latlon and possess the vote, could
not possibly blame men for our
failure to achieve the full rights
we desire"
Prolonged applause greeted Mrs.
George Emery Smith, mother of the
new, Senator, who sat at the head
table. Admiral Louis E. Denfeld,
Chief of Naval Operations; Gen.
Hoyt S. Vandenberg. chief of staff
OF the United States Air Force;
Senator Owen Brewster of Maine
and Mrs. Brewster, Commissioner
Frieda B. Hennock of the FEC, Mrs.
c. P. Nelson, wife of the Repre-
sentative from Maine; Miss Gene
We've Rogers. president of the Wash
ington Business and Professional
Women's Club; Mrs. Doris E. Rosen
president of the Maine Business
and Professional Women's Club:
Miss Sally Butler, president of the
international Federation of Busi-
ness and Professional Women's
Clubs. and Miss Olive H Huston,
former director of the national fed
GRAFTON, were other head table
guests.
Women military leaders, all we'll
acquainted with Senator Smith
through her work on the House
Committee on Armed Services, oc-
cupied table. They Included Col.
Mary A. Halleran, director of the
WAC; Capt. Joy Hancock, director
of the WAVES; COL Geraldine May
director of the WAF:: Col. Katherine
Towle, director of the Women Ma
rines; 1t. Col. Katherine E. Boltz
Army Nurse Corps; Capt. Nellie
Jane De Witt, Navy Nurse Corps,
and Col. Emma E. Vogel. chief of
the Women's Medical Specialist
Corps.
! George E. Allen, director of the
State Departments Voice of
America" which featured a speech
by Senator Smith on the after
noon program. was present with
Mrs. Allen.