Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-11-28
The KNOWLEDGE that COUNTS.
RS 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 life has
been due to their own energy and industry,
though the circumstances OF Mr.. Reyne Ids
boyhood afforded him a sound basis upon
which to build. He was eli dcwed 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 manufaG-
turer in Patrick County, Virginia, made
his yearly contracts with his laborers ON
the condition that they kept up with
young Dick"
Even as a boy, Mr.. Reynolds was never
contented unless in some way employed
He found pleasure in tasks that others
found too tedious or burdensome.
= Mr.. Reynolds, while in his 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 a boy, he was
manufacturing tobacco under the name
of r. ]. Reynolds & Co., in a very small
factory at Winston, N. c.
The methods and processes of manu-
featuring tobacco in those days were very
crude. Other men were content with he
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
ICED, and the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco
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 n
process for the manufacture of their new
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 pip
and cigarette smokers. 1t is proving a
great ~favorite with smokers.
A visit to the now mammoth plant OF
R. ]. Reynolds Tobacco Co., proves not
more interesting to the seeker for infor-
nation and an insight into the tobacco
dent of the labor problem. h 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 GOO
hours and good wages, entirely acceptable
lowed, which is fully manifested in the
unusually large number of employees who
started in with Mr.. Reynolds MARI years
ago and have never found it nee 7@sary 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. 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 insistence upon
fair dealing by it's founder. q