People: Feb. 28, 1927

Had they been interviewed, some people who figured in last week's news might have related certain of their doings as follows: Samuel Insull, organizer of electricity: "In Chicago last week I went to a hall in the black belt to address the National Negro Press Association. I waited two hours for the meeting to begin. Then I said: 'If St. Peter uses a white man's time-table the Negro will never get to the land beyond.' 'Thriftlessness,' said I, 'is the Negro's great handicap—thriftlessness of time, health, money.' Chicago Commissioner of Health Bundesen followed...

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