Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-03-12
The KNOWLEDGE Thai COUNTS.
l3's The Lessons We Learn III Ess:y>
day Hard Work That Make
Us Successful.

Mr.. R. J. Reynolds, President ard
Founder of the largest manufacturing
plant East of the mississippi, be.org> 70
thai class of men whose SUGGEST Lis as
been due to their own energy and industry,
though thec circumstances 81 Nj. Reynolds
bOyhood afforded HIM a sound bass t.pol
which to build. He WAS cod. nee. by
nature with health and sireIg h, tu!i of
energy and ambitious, While Vel a tender
age, to lead in whatever he UNDERGO. k.
His father, a large painter ard naanuIac-
turer In Patrick County, Virginia, made
his yearly contracts with his iahorlrs ca
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 .thers
found too tedious or burdensc ne.
Mr.. Reynolds, while inhis teens. Pared,
cultivated, cured, manufacturer AID
worked in every department at Ii, mann
~facture, and had successfully he.G the
position OF manager of a factory. In the
rear 1875, hardly more than a boy, be was
manufacturing tobacco under the name
OF 4: J.. Reynolds & g. in a very snail
The methods and processes of manu-
featuring tobacco in those days were very
crude. Other men were conte mt with the
machinery, processes and methods in use:
MI. Reynolds, and the men associated
with him, worked out by experiment. the
reasons for the prevailing methods, and
by the helpof the skilled E,en 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
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
on- ~yhn ~~no rs -
process for the manufacture of their new
brand REFINED graduated smoking
tobacco. It was discovered by eminent
scientists and their experts OF tobacco.
After many years of study and experiment
they found out how to produce the most
and cigarette smokers. 1t is proving &
great favorite with smokers.
A visit to the now mammoth plant OF
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., proves not
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 pr-vails
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
unusually large number of employee who
started in with Mr.. Reynolds ma: years
ago and have never found it nee .ary to
demand higher a or to leere the en-
plov of his COMPANY. Manv If re lads
of the various departments II A:ttd 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. ]. 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 upor
fair dealing by its founder.