Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-07-25
The KNOWLEDGE THAT COUNTS.
IT'S The Lessons We Learn In Every :
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 iIeIlas
been due to their own energy and industry,
though the circumstance CT NJ. Reynolds
boyhood afforded HIM d sound basis upon
which to build. He WAS endowed by
nature with health and strength, full of
energy and ambitious, While yet a tender
age, to lead in whatever he undertook.
HIS father, a large planter and
turer i'll Patrick County. Virginia. made
his yearly contracts with his aborers On
the condition that tEey kept up with
young Dick"
Even as a boy, Mr.. Reynolds was never
contented unless iii some way employed.
He found pleasure i'll tasks that others
found too tedious or burdensc1ne.
Mr.. Reynolds. While IN his teens. planted,
cultivated, curel. 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 a boy, he was
manufacturing tobacco under the name
of R. ]. Reynolds & CO., in a very small
factory at Winston, N. c.
h 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
tCdSOIlS " tAC pISN d1IiliS LiCtIOdS& oIAO
by the help Of the skilled men in charge of
the various departments of the manufac-
turing plant, they invented, perfected and
adopted improved machinery and pro-
cesses;dntil today the fiat plug tobacco
lied, and the r. J. Reynolds Tobacco
Company is known as the largest. best
equipped and c~leanest fiat plug tobacco
manufacturing plant in the world. They
now also own, for which a patent has
I4on ~~lso AIo - -
process for the manufacture of their new
brand REFINED graduated SINS king
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.
A visit to the now mammoth plant OF
r. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co, proves not
more interesting to the seeker for infor-
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 agitations are unknown. Good
hours and good wages, entirely acceptable
to the employees, nave always been al
lowed, which is fully manifested in the
unusually large number of employee who
started in with Mr.. Reynolds MAJ, years
ago and nave never found it nee >ary to
demand higher wages or to le:-e the en-
ploy of his company. Many "f tac heads
of the various departments -.4:+sd 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. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company's plant
of Winston-S Salem, N. c., u. S. A, stands
a visible proof of foresight, united effort.
untiring energy and the insistence upor
fair dealing by its founder.