WOMEN’S VOICES IN CONGRESS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20891, 22 November 1937, Page 10

WOMEN’S VOICES IN CONGRESS

ADDRESSES RECEIVED WITH APPLAUSE

STRONG INDICTMENT OF JAPAN

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright

(Received November 21. 6.30 pan.) WASHINGTON, November 20.

Two women Congressmen made notEble addresses to-day, and one of them received the applause of the Senate, which is almost unprecedented. Senator Dixie Graves, wife of the Governor of Alabama, who appointed her to replace Senator Black, who has been appointed to the Supreme Court, devoted her maiden speech against the Lynching Bill, which the Senate is still debating, and which threatens to disrupt the Legislative programme. “I abhor lynching,” said Senator Graves, "but lynchings have been reduced from 30 in 1926, to 10 in 1936. In five years there will be no lynching in the entire south.” She warned the Senate that Federal intervention in lychings would destroy State sovereignty.

Representative Virginia Jenckes deplored the wide plantings in the capital of Japanese cherry trees, the gift from the Japanese Government, since they no longer represent the original good will. "If we were alert to the maintenance of true national defence," added Mrs Jenckes, "we would root up every Japanese cherry, saw them up lor firewood, and then replant with American cherries.”