Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-07-19
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THE KNOWLEDGE THAT COUNTS.
IT'S The Lessons We Learn In Every,
day Hard Work That Make
Us Successful.

Mr.. X. Reynolds, President and
Founder of the largest manufacturing
plant East of the Mississippi, belongs to
that class of men whose success in life has
been due to their own energy and industry,
/ though the circumstances of Mr.. Reynolds
boyhood afforded him sound basis upon
which to build He was endowed by
nature with health and strength, full of
energy and ambitious, while yet tender
age, TO lead IN whatever he undertook.
HIS father, a large planter and manufac-
turer in Patrick County, Virginia, made
his yearly contracts with his laborers on
the condition that they kept up with
young Dick"
Even as boy, Mr. Reynolds was never
contented unless in some way employed.
lie found pleasure in tasks that others
found too tedious or burdensome.
Mr., Reynolds, while inhis teens, planted,
cultivated, cured, manufactured and
worked in every department of the manu-
facture, and had successfully held the
position of manager of a factory In the
year 1875, hardly more than boy, he was
manufacturing tobacco under the name
of r. J. Reynolds & Co, in a very small
factory at Winston, ~ c.
The methods and processes of manu-
featuring tobacco in those days were very
crude. Other men were content with the
machinery processes and methods in use.
Mr.. Reynolds, and the men associated
with him, worked out by experiment, the
reasons for the prevailing methods, and
by the helpof the skilled men in charge of
the various departments of the manufac.
turing plant, they invented, perfected and
adopted improved machinery and pro-
cesses, until today the fiat plug tobacco
industry has been completely revolution.
lied, and the r. J, Reynolds Tobacco
Company is known as the largest, best
equipped and cleanest flat plug tobacco
manufacturing plant in the world. They
now also own, for which a patent has
been applied, the great discovery of a
process for the manufacture of their new
brand REFINED granulated smoking
/ )blcco. II was discovered by eminent
scientists and their experts on tobacco.
Aftermlny years of study and experiment
hey found out how to produce the most
i 2lightful and harmless tobacco for pipe
and cigarette smokers, 1t is proving a
rrelt favorite with smokers.
A visit to the now mammoth plant of
r. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co, proves not
more interesting to the seeker for infor-
NATION and an insight into the tobacco
manufacturing industry, than to the stu
dent of the labor problem. The visitor
cannot but be impressed by the utmost
harmony and good feeling which prevails
between the employer and employed
Strikes and other disagreements and
labor agtations are unknown Good
hours and good wages, entirely acceptable
to the employees, have always been al.
lowed, which is fully manifested in the
unusually large number of employees who
started in with Mr.. Reynolds many years
ago and have never found it necessary to
demand higher wages or to leave the en-
ploy of his company, Many of the heads
of the various departments started in the
business as boys and grew up under Mr.
Reynolds tutorship. With their ever in
creasing knowledge of tobacco, they de-
veloped into experts, and have brought
into the business vigor and Improvement.
r. ], Reynolds Tobacco Company's plart
of Wmston.Salem, n. c., U. S A, stands
a visible proof of foresight, united effclt
qnfiring, energy and the insistence upon
fair dealing by its founder,
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