Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-01-30
The KNOWLEDGE THAT COUNTS.
IFS The Lessons VIE Learn In Eyarya
day Hard Work TIGzf Make
Us Successful.

Mr.. E. ]. Reynolds, President and
Founder of the largest manufacturing
plant East of the Mississippi, belongs 70
that class of men whose success in life has
been due to- their own energy and industry.
though the circumstance of Mr.. Reynold'S
boyhoOd afforded INN a 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 manufac-
turer iii Patrick County, Virginia, made
his yearly contracts with his labOrers ca
the condition that they kept up with
Even as a boy, Mr.. Reynolds was never
contented unless in some way employed.
Tie found pleasure in tasks that others
found to tedious or Cumbersome.
Mr. Reynolds, While il his teens. planted,
Cultivated, cured. manufactured and
worked in every Department ul the manu-
~iactAre, and had successfully held tie
position Of manager of n factory. In the
year 1876, hardly more than a boy, he was
manufacturing tobacco under the rame
Of r. ]. Reynolds Co. in a very sn all
factory at Winston, N. G.
The methods and processes of MANU-
featuring tobacco III those days We're 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
ON-'OAio IA hS paw %AAiiAS CiiNA
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, flat plug tobacco
industry has been completely reyoIut:on-
lied, and the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco
Company is known as the largest, best
equipped and ~cleanest 1as plug tobacco
manufacturing plant in the world. They
now also OWL, for which a patent has
hAAn onnIIad the oreot NiSCnuArv Of n
process for the manufacture of their new
brand REFINED graduated smoking
tobacco. 1t was discovered by eminent
scientists and their experts on tobacco.
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
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
bbe e1Wsan yt had eg g2Gd fael anss e MhIio prevails
Strikes and other engagements 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 ldiRc HuilOS1 L ClnPloyCIo WIZ
started in with Mr.. Reynolds mar years
ago and ave never found it nee -csary 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 nave 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 upon
fair dealing by its founder. @