Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-11-21
THE KNOWLEDGE that COUNTS,
IT'S The Lessons We Learn In Eyarv-
day Hard Work That Make
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 life has
been due to their own energy and industry,
though the circumstances Of Mr.. RevncId's
boyhood afforded him a sound basis upon
which to build. He was endowed by
nature with health and strength, full Of
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 1aborers on
the condition that they kept up with,
young Dick"
Even as a boy, Mr.. Reynolds was never
Gontented unless in some way employed
He found pleasure in tasks that others
found too tedious or burdensome.
Mr.. Reynolds, while inhis teens. planted,
worked IN every department of the manu-
1acture, and had successfully held the
position OF manager of a factory. In the
year 1870, hardly more than a boy, he was
manutacturing tobacco under the name
factory at Winston, N. C.
n methods and processes of manu-
featuring tobacco in those days were very
crude: Other men were content with the
machlnery, 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 marufac-
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 fiat 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
tobacco. 1t was discovered by eminent
scientists and 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.
R.. Reynolds Tobacco Co., proves not
more interesting to the seeker for infor-
nation and an insight into the tobacco
manufacturing industry, thar 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
lowed, which is fully manifested in the
unusually large number of employees who
started in with Mr.. Reynolds man years
ago and have never found it nee esary to
demand higher wages or to les.e 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
c~reasing 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,
fair dealing by its founder. g