Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-02-20
The KNOWLEDGE THAT COUNTS.
tss The Lessons We Learn In Every
day Hard Work That Make
Us Successful.

Founder Of the larglst r manufactuT nne
plant East of the mississippi, belongs to
that class OF men whose success in life has
en- due to their own energy and industry,
though the circumstance of Mr.. Reynolds
boyhood afforded hun a sound oasis upon
which to build. He was endowed by
nature with health and strength, full Of
energy and ambitious, while yet e tender
age, to lead III whatever he undertook.
HIS rather. a large planter and mauufac-
turer In Patrick County, Virginia. made
bis yearly contracts win his laborers on
young Dick"
Even as a boy, Mr.. Reynolds was never
contented unless in some way employed,
He found pleasure il tasks that others
found too tedious or burdenscme.
MIR. Reynolds, wn:.e nhis teens. planted,
cultivated, cured. manufactured and
worked in every department Of the manu-
position of manager of a factory. In the
year 1875, hardly more than a boy, he was
manufacturing tobacco under the name
Of R. J. Reynolds & Co, in a very small
factory at Winston, N. c. t..
The methods and processes of manu-
featuring tobacco in those days were very
crude. Other men were contsnt with the
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
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
process for the manufacture of their new
brand REFINED graduated 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
and cigarette smokers. 1t is proving 6
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-
nation and IN insight into the tobacco
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 disc greements 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 ma wears
ago and lave never found it nc AIRY to
demand higher wages or to LEI. he en-
ploy of his company. MANY 49, heads
of the various departments : ed in the
business as boys and grew Up under Mr..
Reynolds tutorship. With their ever in
ereasing 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.
untaing energy and the insistence upor
fair dealing by its founder. q