Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-11-07
The KNOWLEDGE THAT GGO.aTS.
IT'S The Lessons We Learn In Every
day Hard Work TEaas HRgssse
Us Successful.

Mr.. R. J. Reynolds, President and
founder OF the largest manufacturing
Plant East of the Mississippi, belongs TO
that class of men whose success in lie las
been due to their own energy and Industry.
though the circumstance Of Nh. ReynCId's.
boyhood afforded him a sound basis upon
which to build. He was endowed by
nature with health and strength, full Of
energy ana ambitious, while yet a tender
age, to lead in whatever he undertook.
HIS father, a large planter and maiiufac-
turer In Patrick County, Virginia, made
his yearly contracts with his 1aborers en-
the condition that they kept up with
Even as a boy, Mr.. Reynolds was never
G9ntented unless in some way employed.
He found pleasure in tasks that .thers
found too tedious or ~burdensome.
Mr.. Reynolds, while inhis teens. planted,
cultivated, cured, manufactured and
worked in every department of the manu-
position OF manager of a factory. In the
year 1875, hardly more than a boy, he was
manutacturing tobacco under the name
OF X, J.: Reynolds & Co. in a very small
n 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, n
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-
industry has been completely revolution
ICED, and the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco
Company is known as the largest, best
equipped and cleanest fiat plug tobacco
manufacturing plant in the world. They
now also own, for which a patent has
been annIIaH the nraof 1icc0rar, ~ -
process for the manufacture of their new
brand REFINED %granulated smoking
tobacco. 1t was discovered by eminent
scientists n their experts on tobacco.
After many years of study and experiment
they found out how to produce the most
delightful and harmless tobacco for pipe
and cigarette smokers 1t is proving a
great %favorite with smokers.
A visit to the now mammoth plant of
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., proves not
nation and IN insight into the tobacco
manufacturing industry, than to the stu
dent of the labor problem. The visitor
cannot but be impressed by the utmost
between the employer and employed.
Strikes and other disagreements and
labor agitations are unknown. Good
hours and good wages, entirely acceptable
to the employees, have always been al
lowed, which is fully manifested in the
started in with MI. Reynolds MAN. years
G and lave never found it nee -ssary 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 MI.
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. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company's plant
of Winston-Salem, N. c., U. S. A, stands
a visible proof of foresight, united effort,
untiring energy and the msistence upon
fair dealing by its founder.