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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1948.

"Until the Government takes the tax off baby harness you'll have to do without your dog lenâș”

What is the human

a

TS it possible to put à cash value on human life? How would you set about calcu- lating what your own life is

worth in terms of £ s. d.?

In Leeds recently Mr Justice Byrne was called on to assess the value of the life of Arthur Bowers, a promising 33-year- old doctor who was killed when a lorry collided with his auto- cycle.

of

While, in international affairs, we seem to be setting a lower value on human life, the ten- deney in domestic affairs is

rather the reverse.

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Until fairly recently it was held to be impossible to timate what life was worth as a good in itself.

"For the happy and contented," was said, "no damages for loss of lite would be adequnte; for the

the man on point of suicide any damages would be excessive," So

lost your could couk

The Judge set the price the doctor's life at £15,000, and awarded damages for that t amount to his widow, 26-year- old Mrs Doris Bowers, the mother of two young children.

£50,000 CLAIM

recover

for

Red fears of the Vatican

by

CHARLES FOLEY

THILE the destiny of Italy, and perhaps the balance of the world, was being determined

at the polls, I drove into the colonnaded courtyard of St. Peter's, passed through a great bronze door, and was received by the Pope.

The Chamberlain explained that the Court, 1,000 atrong, had trooped out of the Vatican that morning to cast their votes Italians, leaving alone, among a hand- ful of whispering Monsignori," the slender, white- clad figure of the Pope.

The Pope has the privilego of a sovereign never to be quoted. But I can say that he talked to me with great animation in English, and that nothing he said upsat, my baller that the Vatican hng thrown down in recent weeks” a challenge of profound importance to our time.

If you are in doubt, ask any, leader of the Italian Communists, who, until the elections, were the most powerful Communist Party in Europe,

They are full of helpless fury at what has happened. They declare that if, na seems likely, the nation's verdict Kocs nainst them, it is because for the first time, the Church has come out openly on the election platform. With the start of the election campaign, war was un- equivocally declared. The verdict will be for all to see.

PROVING GROUND.

THE Pope himself fired the first shot with n speech that

struck." he cried. "He that is not with me is against me."

Tit Pond may retour of Christendom has

value of life?

BY BERNARD

HARRIS

A middle-aged surveyor £6,750 Pler foreman 40-year-okt vlear

£2,370 £2,750

girl

£2,089

£1,000

frecheed on appeal to £150)

Five-year-old boy

£1,250

27-year-old woman

£1,030

Woman in her 20's

£1,000

Man of 20

£1,000

£1,500

Child of 8,

Some jurles have been criticised for being too generous in assessing

the cash value of life.

In Alcide de Gasperi, the Premier who had thrown the Communists out of his Coalition Government, the Pope recognised a pelodin of the Falth. If Italy was to be made the proving ground of Communism in the West, then war old must go to de Gosperl. *

The Communists, sensing defeat, pointed bitterly to tho de Gasperi posters, some of which anid, quite simply: "Vote Christian."

the

They railed at the priests who denied absolution to those voting Communist. They denounced incessant clerical intervention in politics-"a Christian Democrat in every pulpit"-and certainly some of the sermons preached in Italy yesterday painted the perils of Com inunism in more vivid colours than any danger of hell fire.

Finally, the Communists sneered. sharily at the sudden crop of "poll- tical miracles" which has shocked the country folk into renewed plety. And what, they ask, is the mean- During the war the Appeal Courting of Father Lombardi, who playsTM halved art award of £2,000 given the part of Peter the Hermit in this to husband whose 34-year-old twentieth-century crusade, setting wife, the mather of four children, alight the industrial north with anti- for which he had been killed in a car crash. Communist speeches

The original award was contrasted claims divine inspiration? unfavourably with the £1,000 which What, the Communists demand,. can they do to counter this new a little previously had been held to be proper compensation for loss of offensive of what has so suddenly all senses, the Church expectation of life by a healthy become, in young women of 23,

Poyular

LIFE'S HAZARDS Most people are Inclined to put A higher value on their life than would be recognised by the law.

Militant?

Palmiro Toglinti, the Front leader and Number One Communist of Western Europe, de- cided before the election that ha would win over the church-goers. with appeasement.

it you were killed in an accident through no negligence of your own, you relatives could your

not Beck damages merely because you had

expectation of ilfe.

Nor clolm they

anything mental suffering or bereavement.

But you were a breadwinner they could

substantial damages for the monetary loss they had suffered because of your death. This was the position until 1934, when the Law Reform Act required that in cases where life hatt been sharlened by accident the value of loss

Os of expectation of life should be

A man earning £250 a year and

21-HOUR DAY into account in assessing taken

with good chances of continuing to damages

carn that amount for 20 years may RUT the cliadel of world Catho- That Act presented many dificult

reckon himself worth £10,000,

Dielem will not fall to guile, and Togliatti problems for judges and juries.

"By what mental gymnastics,"

But simple estimate like that when, at the last hour, It reported that Britain had asked the late Lord Hewart, "are or juries except the gradual working leaves out of account the hazards switched to a fear campaign, threa

tening

know that they would ups-and-downs of life and people voled anti-Communist, the asked the International Court you to decide foirly. what is the out, chiefly through the common and

out the normal expectation of life of a mun sense of juries, of the sort of tigures would hardly coincide with a jury's Christian Democrats whipped of Justice for £50,000 com- already dead?"

that in English civilisation today are assessment.

As one of our judges once de- slogan: "God sees you inside the regarded as reasonable."

polling booth, Stalin doesn't." "Jurles should always be Jurles' idens of what is reasonable clared:

Most of the credit for bringing the strictly reasonable In have shown wide variation.

assessing Church out of its traditional non- the per- Here are some examples of the damages for loss of expectation of political role belongs to

and akill of the present values they have placed in recent life. If they err at all they should sonality

do so on the low side."

On the day this award was announced there came from The Hague a message which was also concerned with the cash value of human life.

pensation from Albania for the SOME JURIES

loss of 44 British sailors who

Mr. Bowers with her daughter Jennifer and san Peter John,

were killed when two of our And Lord Justice Scott said: destroyers were mined in the "There is no means of arriving at Corfu Chunnel in October 1946. any sort of scale to guide judges years on life:

On that basis Britain values the lives of her sailors at an average of a few shillings over £1,136 each.

Pope.

STRATFORD'S MOST SPECTACULAR SEASON

shops

which Sir

condition.

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ex-

ments?

Nobody anyone.

allowed

success.

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Productions of this disadvantages the incongrullies. reasons I shall come to presently) and schools. You may think that figure SEVERAL things combine to for the new dresses. "Hamlet" (for relled largely on visiting foreigners that has been tried, but it has its

make this year's Shake is being dressed in mid-Victorian season's quality are costly luxuries. draw too much attention. 'low. And, indeed, there is an speare Festival at Stratford, styles-buge crinolines, velvets som Stratford does not aim to make a

proft, but ends must meet.

If Stratford becomes a national.. 7.30 & 9.30 p.m. historical precedent to confirm which opened on April 15 with bre and rich, bugles and sequins,

The costume and scenary work-

To place it, as he has done, in you in that opinion. Our sea-"King John," very different

nt is therefore Jackson theatre Barry

a romantic period, sufficiently near to be associated with our grand- men were not always rated so from its predecessors. It is Sir started solely to serve the Meme- to lose some money without worry. rial Theatre and make it a techni- Ing. will there be undesirable inter- cheaply. In October 1904, the Barry Jackson's swan song at cally self-supporting organism are ference from Government depart- parents yet so unaccustomed as to working almost 24 hours day,

Sir Barry, temperament- startle the imagination into a new.

freshness may-I am ready to Russian Baltic fleet, having set Stratford-and a season so am- There is a feeling of excitement, ally an industrialist (like all theatre belleve it, having seen James Bal- out for the war with Japan, bitious that it is bound to leave of bursting life, of artists and tech. men), recalls from this idea.

ley's beautiful designs and handled fired on some British trawlers its mark on theatrical history. nlclans furiously at work in fertilo

But who in to succeed him when some of the dresses be a startling this season ends? Who direct the in the North Sea. Two men

There It is a more lavish senson in the

policy and give birth to the Ideas? dressing Shakespeare in any period is a good precedent for All this makes the season were killed and six wounded..

matter of stars than Stratford has

of scems able to think

you fancy. Garrick, after all played the public have tremely interesting. The question

But at Stratford,

the governors seen, and

of Hamlet in a The Russians pleaded that yet

bathering everyone

periwig. must make an appoint-

"King John," is another mental they had mistaken the trawlers responded by breaking all theatri- however, is: How long will it last? Stratford

cal records for advance bookings,

production with Helpmann in a red Sir Barry Jackson was brought for Japanese torpedo boats.

This year's "Hamlet" produced wig and beard and looking Iko 100,000 bought having already

in by the Governors in 1945 to Britain demanded

infuse new blood into the stagnant by Michael Benthall-with Robert something off a 13th century tomb, ал im-seals for the first 13 weeks.

Helpmann and Paul Scofield alter as the King, Ena Burrill (recently system. Ho has done it 10

anting as the Prince, Diana Wyn Michael Redgrave's Lady Macbeth) mediate apology from the Czar Stratford is, in fact, emerging

and so well that thoroughly

yard as the Queen and an ambl 15-year-old, Timothy Harley, as up the directorship at and got it. We also demand-with deliberate brilliance from the giving ed full compensation-and got stodgy chrysalis we have known so

long. Money has been spent in and of the season is regarded by flous unknown of 17. Claire Bleon, or Constance, and a very small

in her first big part as Ophella- Arthur. company and audience alike with is undoubtedly going to be the £65,000.

ble way. Front-rank stars-Diana great misgiving. But Infusions of sensation of the season.

Audroy Cruddas, who dressed "The White Devil" in 1946, han Now £65,000 in good golden Wynyard, Godfrey Tearle, Robert new blood on this scale are expen-

designed the highly stylised dresses sive and the governors are nervous, sovereigns for the loss of two Helpmann-are the Porto, Hamlet.

Sir

to Barry has not been asked

and scenery. I was struck by her seamen suggests that our

stay on.

simple expedient of dressing all the English in red, the French in blue affairs were conducted with

and the clerics in purple and white. more vigour in 1904 than in

For the first time one knew at a 1948, when apparently we are The crowded morgue of Shake-

It is a question of simple arith- that the eye is often bered and the flance who was who and on which to be content with £50,000 in spearean costumes has been brought

aldo-a comfort not usually enjoyed depreciated paper money for out in the sun, cleaned, de-mothed metle. Stratford in the past paid mind dead to the universal

To at Shakspearean productions. and cut

10 up

provide rlch auch

content of the play. small salaries that the big tonnl the loss of 44 lives.

materials and pre-war ornaments names stayed away and the theatre put it in modern dress is a device

DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, Jr. MAUREEN O'HARA WALTER SLEZAK SINBAD THE SAILOR

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Tho producer has dressed It in the crinolines of the 1800s, which will provoke many people but

should it? Ho hos his reasons.

The public, says Benthail, is 50 used to Hamlet in traditional dress

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