SSON INTERPRETS NEWS: , Soviet Power To Form Block Causes Procedural Argument High tension developed in the Paris Peace Conference over the procedural question of a two-thirds agreement because of Russia's power to form a block against recommendations to the Big Four foreign ministers, Prof. Preston W. Slosson said yesterday. - Speaking in his regular Tuesday series of lectures interpreting the news, Prof. Slosson explained that in the case of a two-thirds agree- ment rule, Russia could possibly line up the eight states necessary to block a recommendation from entrance on the records. Russia Has Three Votes Russia already has three votes in the conference, he pointed out, as the Ukraine and White Russia have separate delegations in the same fashion in which the British domin- ions are represented as separate enti- Hoenigswald Will Lecture On Linguistics Henry M. Hoenigswald, Linguis- tics Institute instructor, will speak on "Descriptive Techniques in Histori- cal Linguistics" at 7:30 p.m. today in Rackham Amphitheatre. Hoenigswald will apply some of the points of view worked out by linguis- tics instructors everywhere to the Shistory of well-known classical lan- guages such as Greek, Latin and Sanskrit. "Much of the work in descriptive techniques has been done under the stimulus of the war," Hoenigswald said adding that, "the term descrip- tive linguistics itself implies tech- niques worked out in the study of primitive languages or languages not usually taught." The lecture, he pointed out, will be particularly concerned with the traces which sound changes leave be- hind them in the grammatical system of a language. Knowledge of descrip- tive techniques, he explained, en- ables the reconstruction of sound changes from the subsequent stages of a language. Hoenigswald will illustrate his lec- ture with examples from the ancient Greek language. He has been an instructor at Yale University for the past year and had previously been engaged in research on the Etruscan inscriptions found mostly in Italy. During the war, Hoenigswald taught Oriental languages under the Army program of language instruc- tion. He received his Ph.D. in Greek and Latin at the University of Flor- ence, Italy. ties but which usually vote in agree- ment with their mother country. Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Po- land usually vote with Russia in line with past alliances and interests,' Prof. Slosson said, and these six states more or less form Russia's "solid East." States which might be lined up with the Russian bloc on certain issues, he indicated as being China and France which latter, he said, doesn't want to seem a mere tool or ally of Great Britain and the United States and so might agree with Rus- sia occasionally. Russian Politics 'Practical' Thus the Russian attempt to get the conference to reverse itself on the questions of two-thirds rule was not merely in line with an abstract theory but was a case of practical politics. This situation is similar to that which existed in the Democratic na- tional primaries until recently, Prof. Slosson said. There, two rules differ- ed from those followed in the Re- publican primaries: 1) the unit rule whereby states voted as a solid dele- gation; and 2) a two-thirds agree- ment was necessary for the nomina- tion of a president or vice-president. These rules were insisted upon by the South in order to give it veto power against a northern coalition, he said. "We cannot complain, therefore," Prof. Slosson commented, "that the Russians are doing some- thing unheard of." Mitchell Cites NIew lMethods The joys of doing homework were described yesterday by Prof. Elmer D. Mitchell of the physical educa- tion department, speaking in the School of Education summer lecture series. Prof. Mitchell pointed out that modern methods of, recreational guidance help children to combipe education and recreation. "Hobby interests inherent in such subjects as social science, music, art, health education, science and crafts," he continued, "can be turned into school projects so that assigned homework becomes both educational and recreational." Prof. Mitchell expressed the opin- ion that it is a fallacy to suppose that ta person's avocation should be the opposite of his vocational inter- est. Hobbies, he said, are the resultl of doing things one likes to do and do well, "play interests" usually be- ing similar to work interests. Pianist To Play ... Evelyn Ransom, pianist, will pre- sent a recital in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music at 4:15 p.m. today in Rackham Assembly Hall. Selections from Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert-Liszt and Pro- kofieff will compose the program. * * * Faculty Recital... A faculty recital by Louise Rood, violist, and Helen Titus, pianist, will be given at 8:30 p.m. today in Rack- ham Assembly Hall. Their program will include sonatas by Stamitz, Brahms, Paul Hindemith and Rebecca Clarke. Chorus Concert .. . Mary Muldowney will conduct the Summer Session Chorus in a con- cert at 8:30 p.m. Sunday in Hill Auditorium. Soloists on the program will be Lynne Palmerhharpist, and Ken- neth Pool, organist. Selections from Bach, Palestrina, Christiansen, Brahms, Olden, Ryd- er, Shaw and others will compose the program. Wind Instruments .. A wind instrument program in the student recital series will be present- ed at 2 p.m. Friday in Harris Hall. Participants, who will be assisted by Beatrice Gaal, Marvin Bostrum and Mildred M. Andrews, pianists, are Edwin Kruth, Harold Fisher, Earl Bates, Haskell Sexton, James Dycus, Paul Bryan, John Baynes, Lee Chris- man, Noah Knepper, William Stub- bins, Rollin Tuttle, Robert, Buggert, John Ginther and Warren Shelley. They will play selections from Mo- zart, Haydn, Pierne, Ewald, Paganini- Vognar, Scarmolin and Firestone. Interlochen To Give Concert Tomorrow The Junior Girls' and Junior Boys' divisions of the National Music Camp will present a full-length concert at 7 p.m. tomorrow at the Interlochen Bowl, followed by scenes from grand oPera performed by the college divis- ion. Numbers - by the 60-piece Junior Symphony Orchettra, the 100-voice junior chorus and the 45-piece junior band will be included on the junior program. The opera program will consist of scenes from "Pagliacci," "Hansel and Gretel," "Carmen," "The Magic Flute," "Lakme," and "Aida." .LviL tittj rjjj 'IC I-R 1 I17 Ji S H 0 E S H I N E B OAY S - These dejected-looking shoeshine boys, former members of the victorious _ Japanese Army in China, wait for business outside the Matsuzakaya Department store on the Ginza, Tokyo's business center, a year after Nippon's capitulation./ CH A I R M A N-Paul Henri Spaak (above) of Belgium is chairman of the rules committee at the Paris Peace Conference. GREETING A PEACEMAKER -Mrs.James F. Byrnes shakes hands with Sir Khizar Hayat, minister of state for Punjab, India, at a Paris reception for delegates to the Peace Con- ference. Secretary of State Byrnes is in the center. CATHEDRAL R E'PTA ItRS ..-Workmen repair the roof of the bomb-damaged Cathedral of St. Stephan in Vienna--- one of the city's most beautiful buildings. In background are two Heiden Towers which decorate the front of the roof. 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