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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 14 Feb 1935, p. 33

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Asia.- Mr. Sokolsky's many years of ex- perience in China and japan as.a news- paperman and spécial advisor to varlous groups assures an, interesting discus- sion. Mr.,Sokolsky's career began in 1917 when -he went to Ruffsia, to see the «Russian Révolution; instead, he edited an allied war-paPer in Petrograd which caused the Bolsheviks te request. him to leave the country. He pushed on to. China in the stirring days of March, 1918,toWork for the committee on Public information at Shanghai. Lat- er he became editor of the Far Eastern Review and contributor to the New York World, the -Philadeiphia- Ledger,, the; New York Evening. Post and' the New York Times. From 1920 to 1930,. Sokolsky was. political correspondent for the :"North China Daily News," the 'leading. British newspaper. in the Far East; the "japan Advertiser," thé Amterican newspaper in Tokyo; the "New York lEvening Post" and others. He also publieled a Chiuiese .newpaper and helped to organize the Chinese Government Bureau of Economic Infor-, mation. During the past decade he bas also edited theý polit ical and eco- nomnic chapters of "The China Year Book." He wrote a textbook. -Outtines of Universal History, for Chinese ,,chçogls. He returned to the United States *after 14' years of uninterrupted resi- *dence ini China and japan and bas since then wri tten not only on Far Eastern subjects, but also on current political and econoniic problems. Tickets for this lecture niay be pur- *chased in advance at the temple office (telephone Glencoe 725) or frotn Mns. B,àrnett Faroli, 741 Prospect avenue, Winnetka, (telephone Winnetka 609). Course tickets for the remaining three lectures which -include in. additioni to- Mr.> Sokolsky, John 'Strachey, noted English author, -and Prof. Arthur Holty ý.Compt on, Nobel' prize winner, are also available now at reduced prices. Joseph MeOwens WilI uiap rEuw auuuuo w MU C0m m»uuw. Arrangemients may >bce made for Private Les- Toreu ,: md Jo11 P.nIiuIa oénsin voice Placement -for Operap Concertb4p.ru. and Rad io. .IWu& 56 I Mathew Francis 1A Unied A rtist ftgwp6or 1152 Central Ave. WiloéetI. 2I Read the Wanàit' Ads. lslrks,. Mrs. J. wara I-artke ' Mrs. William Draper, and Mrs. Edwin Murphy. A.faeewell stag.dinner was'.giveni for Mr. McOwen at' the Hotel Sher-

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