Evening star., 1922-11-26
BY HENRY v. .BUNN.
.HE following is: brief summary Of
the most important news of the world
for the seven days ended November 25:

for the seven days ended November 25:
.Uaited States Of AmeFice.-0n Tuesday the
President addressed Congress In joint session
in the interest OF the bill commonly known
as the ship subsidy bin. 1t was very nne
speech-clear and logical; but how vote-com-
pelling remains to be seen. 1t Is evident that
a good many members are much moro inter-
ested in rural credits. Legislation than IN the
fortunes<of our merchant marine.
Mrs W. H FELTON,, appointed, interim sena-
tor from Georgia on the. death OF senator
Watson, was sworn In on Tuesday and allowed
to hold hersseat until the next day. when the
newly elected senator from: Georgia, MI.
George, was constrained to claim It. She made
a nice little speech appropriate TO the some
E. what remarkable occasion. 49,.
heard clemenceau's. first American speech,
at the Metropolitan. Opera house. ne" .rs. aork.
It was in, chief a direct appeal to the amer, Ameri
put it. on the unique romance of the rela-
ttons between Trance and the new-oorn
association, Of the republics IN the great war.
It was an appeal for q reunion Of hearts rs ss.
American heart seems to be responding as
warmly Clemenceau could wish But the>
reaction of the American mind to C!emen-
ceau's definite proposals. such as the Boston
one-what will that be?
oi the snS ,ser
Of War under Roosevelt. died at his , home =, IN n
Memphis Moyemee, nh I'll III H., srSoo ana
Truman H. Newberry has resigned his seat seat
senator from Michigan: Presumably ,nnac ~
dead issues; but some say it hasn't.
President Harding has nominated Pierce
tice Of the Supreme Court to nll the seat va
Gated by Justice Day. Mr.. Butler Is demo-
crat.
The British Observation-Disclosures was con-
vened in the course Of the past week. It is
thought that the Irish business completed,
the chief subject to engage Its attention Will
be unemployment. The strong labor represen-
tation in. the new commons will not let that
subject sleep. It is terrible problem with
sinister possibilities. The registered unem-
ployed number about 100000. but that figure
does not begin to tell the dismal story.
new chapter in the melancholy history
of Ireland opened with rne execution In Dub
lin on the 18th of four "irregulars" c'gun-
men" we would call them in this country.
found guilty by ono of the new military COM
missions OF unauthorized possession Of re-
had been proclaimed Erskine Chiiders. run
to earth while brandishtng revolver. was
she son Of an English father and an Irish
mother. He was brought up In England and
received the conventional edueauon OF an Eng J,s
. tinction in the Boer war and in the great war.
1t is not clear Just how or when he became
interested in the Slim Fein movement when.
so to speak his Irish mother asserted herself
in him, We. find him. in Ireland after the
great war the most inFeterate enemy OF Brit
ish rule there. Since the establishment Of
the provisional Free State government he had
opposed 1t with q malignant fanaticism keener
than that OF De Valera He Is reputed to have
been the brains of the republican movement
and to have planned a large part Of its hideous
, activities. Whatever. else may be said Of
him, he was q very brave man.
The executions noted were entirely Just. but
whether on tho whole they have strengthened
injured the Free State government with
the country Is not clear. =.