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The Lord Chancellor stated during the appeal: "The thing to be valued is not the prospect of length of days, but the pros- -pect of a predominantly happy . life"

He added that the degree of happiness to be obtained by a human being did not depend on wealth or status.

The appeal was allowed

BAHICH would be the more prociņus, is the choice had to be made--the

prospect of a tong life or the prospect of a happy one?

This was the question'seven Lay Lords had to answer yesterday) when considering an appeal from an award made in respect of a 21-year-old boy killed in a car accident.

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"I am of opinión" said Lord Rimon, the Lord Chancellor, "that the right con

and the order of Mr Justice other days creeps Asquith varied by reducing an mind-- award of £1,200 to £200,

into the

"Is Life a Buon?

If so, it must befall

clusion is not to be resched by applying what is called the statistical er actuarial tast.

account, "the pains and sorrows as well as the joys and pleasures," and a

just accounting made.

What a fascinating and mov-

THIS decision of the highest ing world of inquiry is there court of the land is full of opened! For where does true That Death, whene'er he call fascination to the student of hu- happiness reside, and on what man affairs. For the question, does it depend? Are there de- it appears, ought really to be grees of happiness, or is there a distinction in quality? Did the great mun among the heights

Must call too soon."

But the immedinte interest of framed in this way-"What is મા the question is that on Decem- the sum which ought to be paid and pinnacles really sigh for our

rude huts before he died? Or

THE question is certainly THE

unusual, and even trifle disconcerting. It has a ber 16 it was raised in the House for the loss of u measure of touch of the unanswerable of Lords as a legal question prospective happiness?" In that did he find his true life among about it, yet somehow stays which required to be answered: form it seems less like a legal books, journeying with the brave for an answer. Quite re- and the answer then given is question than ever. But that is and wise spirits of all ages, and

the question which the Courts of cently it has been fully con- binding on all other courts.

The circumstances in which Law must henceforth examine in tasting a world of infinite hap- sidered in the House of the question arose can be short- all such cases. The individual piness in that great company?

Did he find life sweet because Lords, and an answer given ly stated. On June 1, 1938, the life must be examined on this of day and night, sun, moon and was at basis: when all relevant matters stars, and "likewise there's a by the highest tribunal in driver of a motor-ear the land. Because of the tempting to pass another car on have been considered, was the wind on the heath"? Or was nature of the question and the road, when he caused the individual likely to have had a he just the happy-go-lucky ad- A small life which contained a positive venturer, not reflecting too deep- the issues raised by the an- boy, aged 211⁄2 years, who was a measure of happiness. swer, the decision has ex- passenger in the other car, was But how is that to be decided, periences, and not tempting the cited an interest rarely so seriously injured that he died and what are the tests for a posi- deeper raptures? So the ques- shown in legal matters, and the same day. The father of the tive measure of happiness, and tions crowd upon one another, extending far beyond legal circles.

The reason is not far to

other car to overturn.

By Norman Birkett, K.C.

ly, content with the smaller ex-

and in the background the scarcely formulated question whether or not all happiness hangs by a thread!

It becomes increasingly plain indicate news which it strictly copyright seek. Many legal questions small boy, as the administrator what guidance in these deep that precise and accurate mea-

CAN seem academic and remote of the estate of his son, brought matters be given? The surement of happiness is beyond the unite the date of publication by to ordinary people (though an action against the driver of House of Lords did not quail be attainment: indeed, it may be rither who's and forbid republleations, in truth they are not), but the car which had caused the fore these searching questions, said that to try and assess a accident, claiming damages for and laid down the proper method measure of happiness in terms this question appeals to his son's loss of expectation of of approach to the essential pro- of money is to attempt the im-

blem. them in the most vivid. and life.

possible. For some will say FRANCE & THE BLOCKADE personal way. Indeed, quite

In doing so, the great authori. that the thing called happincas When the case was heard be- ty of the House of Lords was depends upon a thousand fac- ADMIRAL Darlan's demand that ordinary people who would fore one of is Majesty's given to much that the genera- tors, and some will say, para- French ships should be allowed free be afraid to discuss a legal judges at Winchester Assizes tions of men have learnt at in- doxically enough, that in the last passage through the blockade brings the European food situation once question, feel that they could the only question left for deci- finite cost.

Mere length of life analysis it depends upon one again into. praninence, Mr Herbert make some contribution to sion was the amount of damages. was not to be regarded as the only. Hoover, former President of the

The very great difficulty of as- most important feature, nor the United States, predicted some months the answer to this question sessing the amount in such cases' mere

But henceforward, the Courts possession of worldly of Law must attempt the just fhet before the winter set in. out of their human experi- had long been recognised, and goods, nor indeed the mere fact appraisement of this loss of hap that starvation faced

and urged ence!

after hearing argument, the of high rank or station. These, piness in terms of money, When now under German co tron countries. the world to take cognisance of the

learned judge awarded £1,200 of themselves, are not the things considering the amount to be fact that food supplies should be

oul of which the happy life awarded in the case of the young allowed

those are ved to enter

This award was reviewed in He apparently felt

child, will it be possible to

ago, in

areas.

comes.

to be hopeless to philosopher, the muralist, the Court of Appeal, but was ask Germany to release some of the

the essayist, the brooder over not disturbed, and in due course Yet, oddly enough, they are speculate upon the kind of world wheat she has stolen from France and so has turned his attention to Britain human affairs-all alike feel the question came to the House still the things for which most into which the child would have and the blockade. He is even re- that in this matter they have of Lords. After full and cla- people sigh when they think grown up? ported to have stated that America something to say. should, in return for her bid to how reminiscent of the old im- Lords decided that the proper of days is in her right hand; and WOULD it have been a world

It is some borate argument the House of over human affairs, almost un- consciously repeating-“Length Britain, insist on the blockade being perious

question "Is Life figure for this particular case in her left hand, riches and lifted in so for food is

is concerned. Fortunately, President Roosevelt has worth living?"; and that song of was £200,

honour," been able to size up the situation sufficiently to

urge caution on the part of would-be philanthropists, It is highly probable that the on the

well

blockade has welthed henvily, on

a wide

French habit of

of eating, but there is vide difference between what most of the European

are now able

to obtain and

Darlan himselion Admiral

inferring that

the French people are

are nearing star- vation because of the blockade, de- clared it to be cared

in

the ease the

this

"ineffective."

If then Britain should not be held responsible for any lack but Germany, and the Vichy authorities

should

'rather than

turn to Berlin for redress dan pecuse Britain's "ineffec- tive weapon" of being the cause of

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PRIVATE LIFE

IT'S AN

OF A PRIVATE

AN ARMY WAY

WE

HAVE

TE was a lean, narrow man go home".

"The minute the with a face which might war's over they won't see my their sufferings. Vichy is clearly have been pressed between two pants for dust" . all that following

the line laid down by Ber-boards; and his name was Pynn, sort of thing. lin for, as Mr Joseph C. Harsch, cor-

He had been a fireman before "It's an old Army habit, all this respondent for the "Christian Science Monitor" In Lerman authorities

stated in re- the Army claimed him. Now grouse is meat and drinks to an old grousing. A good grumbling and its the firefighters wanted him seldier.

back; and there he was, between And yet, when they finally do get two fires as it were; not at all back to everyday life, they're as miserable as zin, Uluse same grum- sure that he wanted to go. blers. They get on everybody's

"I," he said, "am going back

nerves with cracking up the good old to Civvy Street pretty soon life in camp. now." He sighed very deeply.

"You don't sound pleased about it."

article, Ger have the effrontery to declare that the British blockade is to blame. On the contrary, the most qualled neutral observers, with few excep tions, believe that Germany has with- in its power

to prevent famine where within the occupied areas for ine any- at least

year and possibly another another two years or even more."

Under the terms of the armistice, Germany has apparently the

power

to requisition all she requires or wants from France. Berlin has taken full advantage of this agree- ment for not only in occupied France

min

An Acquired Taste

"The army is one of those acquired "I don't know whether I'm sick at first. Then you feel you can't tastes, like smoking. It makes you pleased or sorry," said Pynn, get on without it. "That's how it is. When I was "I remember when I first joined. in Civvy Street I longed for the and began to get my first chasings on Army. Then, when I came here the square-well, I felt I wanted to I longed for Civvy Street.

"And then, when I'd finished any

Meat And Drink

Soldiers are like fishermen.

"It's like that, this Army. they curse their business, and

dies

"I was half sorry to leave the bar-

• racks!

Bu

made secure against the in- trusion of war) or would a mea- sure of happiness still be liable *

to vanish in a night? Would UT-the-House of Lords in this it have been that world, for great matter is on the side. which so many have lived and of the philosophers, the thinkers died, where inequalities and in- and the poets. Dekker would justices no longer have power lo have respectfully concurred, for prevent the happy life, and some three hundred and fifty where the evil things have passed years ago, he recorded his view away?

In short, would it have been "Art thou poor, yet hast thou a world where the plant of hap-

golden slumbers?

piness could reasonably expect to grow and flourish?

Q Sweet Content!

Art thou rich, yet is thy mind

perplexed?

O Punishment?"

And, upon reflection, it may very well be that the greatest service which the House of Lords and Sir Henry Wotton would be has rendered in considering this gratified to find his noble lines question is not in the legal on "The character of a Happy sphere only. Even in time of Life" so completely endorsed. war the minds of men have been It is further to be observed drawn to consider the ultimate that in estimating the measure things which concern the hap- of prospective happiness of the piness of men, women and individual life, the heights and children, and indeed the hap- the depths are to be taken into piness of all mankind.

Southern Thrust

Thrust Into Abyssinia Opens Roads

where four-liths of France's wheat is grown, but in the unnecupled arens

NAIROBI, Mar. 20 (Reuter).-Yavello, in southern Abys- she appears

to be able to seize what she desires. It has become known

first eight or nine weeks, and passed sinia, has been taken by regular troops according to to-day's progressing out and got ready to come to the official conmumique which adds that operations are that German agents, stationed at Marsellies, commandeer the suppiles

In Abyssinia, patriot troops ara which arrive regularly from North

Battalion, I noticed a strange thing in the Neghelll area.

pressure 00 Debra British patrols contacted the maintaining Africa, where, Incidentally the Ger-

Marcos, which is half surrounded, Infiltration is already cominen-

"If by any chance, I'd been kept enemy in the difficult moun-while the imperial forces who cap surate with the earller filtration bless it, all in the same breath, back there, I'd have been going about tainous country surrounding tured Jij are now in contact with

I know. I'm the Company with a face as long as a fiddic Yet Murda Pass, eight miles west of the enemy halfway to Harar. of Clerk,

was browned off-which means Fed Jijiga, the capture of which, says! Up at the thought of going. "I've heard soldiers talking-

the communique, WAS "And here I am, due to It is highly sumißeant that France has been made the focus in the food

men, N.C.O., every kind of sol- good, and netually feeling pretty sick difficult. problem, especially

Some prisoners were taken with the dier and to hear them you'd about it!", as the need 'In

town. Belgium and other occupied countries think they were on the verge of in admittedly greater than in France, mutiny all the time...

"By the capture of this important! and has been so for

many months. The cloven hoof in pushing Vichy

into Rumania and Bulgaria, this threatening the independence France's colonial Empire,

dear.

Epilogue

Ho for

not U.S. Aviation Spirit

For Japan

Question For Commons LONDON, Mar. 10 (Central News).

the

Minister

At this point, a corporal put his centre, new routes have been opened "Fed up with the sight of head in at the door and said:— up' running east to Berbera and west-Mr Garro Jones, Labour M.Pis forward A the suppliant Is

khak!" "Browned off with "What kind of a lousy place is this, to Diredawa, where the road meets addressing an inquiry to Germany la not in the slightest degree ruddy Bren guns" "Living where a man can't get a bit of four-the through railway from Dibuti," of Economic Warfare as to whether interested in the question of food only for the monient when I can tract and doing a whole song and

by-two without signing a ruddy con-enys the cornmunique.

he is aware that Japan in August 1940 1940 Resistance At Keren

Imported American petrol from a humunitarian polat of view

sevenfold more „dance about it? but highly interested in the possi-

in quantity than she bilities of the situation. By urging

"Am I expected to go on my bend- CAIRO, Mar. 20 (Router).-The did in the same month in 1930, and Admiral Darlan to make his appeal,

towards closer co-operation between fed ruddy knees for a rotter tile bli Italians are putting up a desperate that extraction of aviation spirits attention

Germany and lending to eventual of regulation flannelette? is automatically drawn

resistance nt Keren though reports from the import tended to defeat the control of the French Fleet. Ad- "All right! I'm through. Away from Germany towards British

I'm renching Cuiro indiente that they lack American ban on the export of

octane fuel to Japan. "callousness" in

miral Darian's threat that the French browned off! For all I care, there jadequate air support, withholding fond

rifle. navy would be employed to escort can be ruddy spiders in my

The position of the British forces Mr Jones asks whether the Minis- supplies, Propaganda along this line

their supply ships through the block--" can have the double advantage of

In this area continues to develop ter of Economic Warfare has taken swinging popular feeling in France

favourably, stated a military spokes- action or made representations to man to-night. against Britain and of paving the way

Washington on the matter,

ade was an indtention of the line "What did I tell you?" sald Pynn,

sighing again. Germany, wishes him to adopt.

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