NOTED SOUTH AMERICAN ECONOMIST TO LECTURE

Dr. Alejandro, E. Bunge of Buenos Aires, Editor of the Revista de Economia Argentina, will lecture on "Argentine Economic Conditions" this evening at 8 o'clock in Emerson J. The lecture is open to the public, and will be in English.

Dr. Bunge is one of the most learned and versatile men in the Argentine Republic today. After some years of study at the Colegio Nacional and the University of Buenos Aires, he went to Germany in 1897, to study engineering. In 1903 he received the degree as Civil Engineer from the School of Engineering at Hainichen.

Active in Argentine Affairs

Returning to the Argentine, Dr. Bunge became a student of political economy, sociology, statistics, and labor. From 1910 to 1918 he was a member of the Argentine Social League, from 1912 to 1916 President of the Labor Clubs of the Republic, from 1918 to 1920 member of the Syndicate of Rural Banks, and since 1919 President of the Argentine Social-Economic League. He is associated with Ernesto Tornquist and Co., a leading banking firm of Buenos Aires.

Dr. Bunge has held a number of high administrative offices under the Republic. From 1913 to 1915 he was Head of the National Department of Labor Statistics, in 1916 Chief of the National Census, from 1918 to 1920 member of the Commission on the Valuation of Exports, in 1919 Technical Expert on the Argentine Delegation to the Second Pan-American Financial Conference in Washington.