NOTABLE ADDRESSES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 303, 22 November 1937, Page 9

NOTABLE ADDRESSES.

WOMEN CONGRESS MEMBERS. WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. Two women members of Congress made notable addresses to-day, and one of them received applause from the Senate, which is almost unprecedented. _ „ Senator Dixie Graves, wife of the Governor of Alabama, who appointed her to replace Justice Black, devoted her maiden speech to a_ protest against the Lvnching Bill, which Senate is still debating and which threatens to disrupt the legislative programme. “I abhor lynchings,” she said, “but lynchings have been reduced from thirty in 1926 to ten in 1936. and in five years there will be no lynching in the entire South.” She issued a warning that Federal intervention in the control of lynchings would destroy State sovereignty. 1 '■ ; . . . Representative Virginia Jenckes deplored the widespread planting in the Capitol of Japanese cherrv trees, a gift from the Japanese Government, since they no longer represent the original goodwill. “If we are alert in the maintenance of true national defence we should root up every Japanese cherry tree, saw them up for firewood, and replant American cherries,” she said.