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| jt }: | Ancient Customs Highlight | French Easter Observance Easter in France is a time of 'day a torchlight procession of als celebration, Throughout Holy penitents will wend its way through Week, in the great cathedrals, in the city as crowds of the faithful the village churches and in the carry aloft statues of the Madonna homes of the people, France's citi- and Child. On the same gay, in re- |ens mark the days with ceremon- | Burzet, the townspeople wil |ies of vivid pageantry and colour. enact the Passion of Christ in a i Eastern means chocolate Easter drama directly descended from the |eggs to Parisian children, Some of [medieval myste: and miracle | them will mlso go out to look at the | plays. In many other cities also -- sky, for its is a common belief that | like Roquebrune on the Riviera and on Easter Day the sun will dance in| Le Mans, about two hours from | the heavens. In many regions of |Paris -- Good Friday processions, France, the Easter eggs have an | depicting the sacred tragedy of 19 added meaning. Young boys and centuries ago, will be staged with girls give each other Easter eggs |pomp and splendor. with expressions of their feelings| 'Judas, the Betrayer", plays a Motorcycle Injures Nine TORONTO (CP) -- Nine persons were injured Tuesday night when ja police motorcycle collided with a car and bounced into a crowd on the sidewalk at a west-central in- tersectioh. Witnesses said the scene re- sembled a battlefield at first as injured men, women and children lay on the sidewalk moaning, There were about 100 persons on the corner at the Bathurst and Collage street intersection at the ime, ye Chief of Staff General Nguyen fhe Communisyled Viet Mish hod van Hinh of Indo-China's Viet 8. new am cal decreed total mpbilization by Nam, one of the three men re | nr. 45 of male citizens between sponsible for the new sweeping | 21 and 25. It marked the first mobilization order, is shown con- | time in the seven-year war that Sratulating a battalion leader at | Viet Nam has ordered total call- a recent pection, Viet Nam's all-out conscription is the first of a far-reaching series of mea- up. Until now the Union forces sures to help the French smash Haydn Tomb To Regain Skull After 145 Years m load. In the leafy month of June, pil-| Haydn's oratorio "The Creation. grims from Vienne plan to visit |In a narrow street a cart, without the little town of Eisenstadt near | horse or driver, blocked the road. the Austro - Hungarian border. |The coachman got out, pushed the There on Pentecost Sunday, seven | cart aside and whipped up the weeks after Easter, they will de- | horses so that Napoleon would mot posit a macabre gift at the tomb be late. A second later the cart of Ji Haydn, Austria's apd the | concealing a bomb, exploded, met- world's beloved 18th century com- | al fragments showe! the st poser, the man who wrote the Au- | some 20 people were killed bu strian mational hymn. Napoleon was unhurt. From Vienne the pilgrims will | With shattered nerves he reach- briig with them a silk lined box ed the theater. The music began containing the skull of Haydn. Af- but Napoleon was so badly upset ter 145 years the head that Haydn | that he did not hear the opening lost soon after he had been buried numbers. He did mot hear 'Let is to be rejoined to the rest of his There Be Light" which always remains, and that will be the last electrified audiences. But then chapter in a ghoulish mystery came the defeat of the spirits of Chat 'darkness and the triumphant "A en Haydn died, in 1809, his New World Arises" from chaos. body became the victim of a pseu- The French text said "a order." doscientific creze called phrenol- Napoleon sat up. Weren't these ogy, the "art" of diagnosing a per- words applicable to him? Was not son's brain and min y the | he the instrument chosen by Provi- "bumps" on his skull, The founder dence to bring a new order out of of this cranial theory, an Austrian | the chaos left by the French revo- named Franz Joseph Gall, went to ' lution? Attensively he followed the Paris but left some zealous dis- A rest of the oratorio. if was a tonic ¢ in Vienna, including one I. |for his nerves, and ever after he . Rosenbaum, a friend and ad- | felt as if Haydn had saved his life. of dn. What a chance, Perhaps we no longer thrill to Rosenbaum t, of investigat- this music the way crowds did in of a great musician! Through a aris and in London. But '"'The Creation" has been repeatedly giv- rison warden, Johann Nepomuk ter, Rosenbaum bribed en in Milwaukee, the last time in Rooeul Bribe Bode | Aron and he Masica society r ume 's eT tex. the burial in the V 'H Two tax Arions and the Musical society. Haydn's vocal music has caused instrum have also been named as accomp- lices. The grave robbers cut more disputes than his en- tal works. "God has given me a cheerful heart, and with a cheer- ful heart I praise Him," he said through the cervical vertebrae and removed the head. The theft was not discovered un- A Agr Ridge 's removed from Vien- Pe A th Ta spent many years ser- viee of the 's family. Police the names of the could th relic. Estr- ; Rosenbaum said the skull him eyebrows over the exuberant cheerfulness of his church music. Later generations were even more severe. The serious minded Men- delssohn was shocked on hearing Haydn's Mass in B flat. "That's not a mass, that's a public scan- solemnity but they are not out rageously operatic like Rossini's. They are decorus emough so thet they were sung in Milwaukee Cath- olic churches not long ago. Haydn's cheerful heart was proof against hardships and misfortunes. \ recover came into possession of the Vienna Scoiety of the Friends of Music, and that group is now re- storing the head, the one from which Haydn's kindly eyes once beamed, softening an otherwise un- prepossessing face. For Haydn was pockmarked, of a dark complexion ("the Moor") and had a nose | =% made prominent by a lifelong in- | ~ ection. SAVED NAPOLEAN'S LIFE | 3 In death Haydn was honored as well as dishonored. His peaceful life closed amidst the thunders of war. French army was march- ing into Vienna, and Napoleon ar- rived the day the composer died. When the emperor heard the news ae ordere a guard of honor posted at Haydn's suburban home. Navo- leon had never met Haydn but his grateful thoughts went back to the _hristmas eve of 1800 when Nano- | leon's life hung in the balance. The | emperor (then "first consul") was | 7 on his way to the theater to attend | Bh. the first Paris performance of' DANI) Fhe Finest POLISH FIGHT ACIDITY AND \ yy A ! Na i Hiss. SHINE NUGGET 10 POPULAR SHADES--W aterproofs--Protects--Preserves happens that the painting is faded, |its means that love, too, will not people in the crowd. dress them- when his contemporaries raised |' Jaina on them in bright colours. |reat part in French Easter folk- lore. In many communities his ef- figy is burned, or tied to a tree and scouraged with whips. Other eggs are hidden for a few days and then looked at again, and if it | last. But if, on the other'hand, the selves in the costumes of Biblical colours are as clear as when they characters of the New Testament. were new, the young French lover | During Holy Week, in remem- knows that his romance will always brance of the sufferings and death be as fresh as an Easter sunrise. | of Christ, all churches in France Some of the most significant re- | are shrouded. Wax tapers are not ligious services of all will be found, burned, holy water is stop and course, at the shrines dedicated only sad songs are sung. Holy to the Virgin Mary. 1954 is Marian Saturday everything is recalled to Year for Roman Catholics and life es the bells ring, the wax | Prance's Marian shrines can be candles are lighted and the holy ted among the most important water is restored to the use of the in the world. Joyous Eastern ob- faithful. In Perpignan in the Pyren- servances will occur at such holy ees the welcoming of Easter is par- laces as Lourdes in the southwest, ticularly beautififl as crowds of Salette in the eastern mountain- | folk-singers and Sardanian street 'ous region and Le Folgoet in Brit- (dancers proclaim the joyous tid- tany. At Bayonne, on Good Fri- ings of the Resurrection. Born in 1732 in the village of Roh- rau, the son of a wagon maker, he | GEC P . d Juche voverty, ut IF wes pivirty resident - L ] . Is Optimistic shiny Burgenland countryside | where he imbibed the German and | SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (AP)-- Chiding prophets of depression. Croatian folk tunes that found their way into his symphonies. A man of the plain people he remained even in his later affluence; he carried | president Ralph Cordiner of the the sunshine and the people's love | General Electric Company Tues- for little practical jokes into his day pointed to the firm's plan to mature music. His boyish soprano spend a record $175,000,000 this voice took him to Vienna; when | year for plant expansion and his voice changed he was thrown equipment as an indicator of the out into the street; for a while he | United States' economic strength. was starving in a garret. Cordiner told about 3,000 stock- holders at GE's annual meeting Juggernaut is one of the holy the projected outlay was 24 per places of India, famous for a cent greater than the $141,000,000 temple built in honor of Vishnu.' spent last year. Constable Bob Duncan of the po- lice traffic squad suffered con- cussion after his machine hit the | group and crashed against a wall. | Salvadoro Dicarlo, 31, received a broken leg. The others, including two children, suffered minor bruises. and cuts. Police said the motorcycle mounted the curb after colliding with a car driven by Sitvey Rey- nolds, 32. Reynolds was charged with careless driving. YW.CA. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21 Handicrafts -- weaving, leather- craft, glove-making, feltcraft, etc., 25 pm.; 7-10 p.m. instruction in games, ete. used at Day Camp, 2 p.m. French Conversation Club -- for men and women, 8 2 THURSDAY APRIL 22 Handicrafts -- weaving, leather- craft, feltcraft, glove-making, etc., 2-5 pm.; 7-10 p.m. Badminton -- badminton club for men and women, 8-10 p.m. FRIDAY APRIL 28 Oshawa Chess Club, 8 p.m. FUR BOW TIES THE PAS, Man, (CP) -- Prime Minister St. Laurent sent a per- sonal letter of thanks to Jack Carroll, president of The Pas Chamb of C ce, for its gift of a fur bow tie. The ties, in | various colors, first made their ap- {pearance at the trappers' festival here last February. Jr. and Int. Leaders' Corpe Fr THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Wednesday, April 31, 100 0 Two Are Injured! Near Belleville BELLEVILLE (CP) -- Two per- sons were injured near here Tues- day when a car carrying five sol- Armstrong Fuels diers and a civilian went out of control, plowed through a fence into an open field. The soldiers were returning to Camp Borden after spending their Easter leave in Nova Scotia. Pte. Donald Vincent Burns, 25, suffered a broken back. Earl Black of Tor- onto, driver of the car, suffered severe facial lacerations. He was the only civilian in the car. The other four soldiers were not in- jured. BIG FOX CATCH BRANTFORD, Ont. (CP) -- Bud Ireland, Hartley Bishop and Bob Keddy discovered 24 fox pups in a den near here. The township will pay $120 in bounties on the foxes, believed from three separate fox families. '--For-- © Sand © Gravel © Loam ® Sod Cut Fresh Daily Phone --5-5864 --3-2712 9 Worth Remembering In 1929 an English race horse paid the equivalent of $1,705 on a 50¢ ticket! By contrast, in 1920, the famous Man o' War three timeg paid odds of only 1 to 100! 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