Stacy Wade, State Insurance Commissioner, Talks to Kiwanians, April 24, 1925

Stacy Wade Talks to the Kiwanians. . . Tells of Insurance and Building and Loan Work

At the Kiwanis dinner at Pinehurst County Club Wednesday, Stacy Wade, State Insurance Commissioner, who is at Pinehurst at the convention of Insurance people, made a short address. He spoke of the work the club is doing in building and loan work and told the gathering that North Carolina is among the leaders in the increase of building and loan investment. Between 1922 and 1923 the state institutions increases their assets over $11 million, and the rate of increase still continues. Mr. Wade also noted the great work done in fire prevention, in which the state also heads the list. By teaching fire prevention in schools and talking it everywhere, the fire losses in residences have been reduced to 7 per cent of the total losses. He made the folks feel pretty chesty over the records North Carolina is piling up in these important departments. The club stirs up more enthusiasm over building and loan, and will offer prizes to the boys and girls making the best showing at the end of the year.

Sherwood Brockwell, fire-fighter, vaudeville artist, lecturer, minstrel, side kick to Wade, and a lot of other things, told a bunch of darky stories, and if he had been at the Southern Pines show Monday he could have had an engagement. Brockwell is in the same class with our own burnt cork artist, Toby Johnson, and that is saying a mighty big word.

Max Gishchner of Baltimore also said a few words and brought some laughs and applause. He is one of the old time North Carolinians who never lived here, but put in much of his time all over the state. He knew the fathers and grandfathers of the folks at the club, and has had three generations of friends in the Sandhills. Gichner says in Calcutta, in India, he fell in with a man who knew North Carolina by hearing of it for North Carolina, the man said, “is in Pinehurst, the great golf country of the world.” Max is strong on North Carolina, and in the next 40 years he hopes to come her as much as in the past.

The ball game was postponed on account of rain, but the threats to play the game in the course of time are many.

From the front page of The Pilot, Vass, N.C., Friday, April 24, 1925. Last name was spelled “Gishchner” on first reference and “Gichner” on second reference.

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