The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1907-07-25

ll's Tha Lessons We Learn In Every
day Hard Work That Make
Us Successful.

Mr.. R. ]. Reynolds, President and
Founder Of the largest manufacturing
plant East of the Mississippi, belongs to
that class of men whose success III lite has
been due to their own energy and industry,
though the circumstances OF Mr.. Reynolds
boyhood afforded him sound basis upon
which to build. lie was endowed by
nature with health and strength, full Ct
energy and ambitious, while yet a tender
age, to lead in whatever he undertook.
His father, large planter and manrtac-
turer in Patrick County, Virginia, made
his yearly contracts with his laborcrS On
the condition that they kept up with
young Dick"
Even as boy, Mr. Reynolds was never
contented unless i'll some way employed
He found pleasure in tasks that others
found too tedious or burdensome.
Mr.. Reynolds, while inhis teens, planted,
cultivated, cured, manufactured ard
worked in every department of the mann
facturc, and had successfully held the
position of manager of factory. in the
year 1879, hardly more than boy, he was
of K. ]. Reynolds & Co, III very small
factory at Winston, N. c.
The methods and processes Of manu-
featuring tobacco in those days We're very
crude. Other men were content with the
machinery, processes and methods i'll use
Mr.. Reynolds, ard the men associated
with him, worked out by experiment, the
reasons for the prevailing methods, aid
by the helpof the skilled men in charge OF
the various departments OF the manUtaC-
turing plant, they invented, perfected ard
adopted improved machinery and pro-
cesses, until today the flat plug tobacco
industry has been completely revolution
ICED, and the Il. 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
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
great favorite with smokers.
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 dlsagreements 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
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 MIR.
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 ComEg,any's plant
a visible proof of foresight, united effort,
untiring energy and the insistenCe upon
fair dealing by its founder.