Hold Fewer Meetings, Get More Done, Says Vernon Cowper, April 13,1923

Many Meetings. . . Held in This Town; Cowper Would Have Fewer of Them

Fewer meetings and more cooperation between the numerous civic organizations here will be the first consideration of G. Vernon Cowper, new president of the Chamber of Commerce of Kinston. “Meeting” has become a habit for hundreds and an excuse for thousands in recent years, and if all the resolutions passed at the gatherings had to be filed and kept, a year’s volume of the Congressional Record would not hold them. Cowper believes fewer sessions of organizations and a smaller volume of resolutions will enable the clubs and boards and associations to accomplish bigger results. There will not be so many things needing attention at one time.

From the front page of the Kinston Daily Free Press, Friday, April 13, 1923