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(Original Caption) Razor King Returns from Orient on Record-Breaking Liner. San Francisco, Calif.: Left to right, King W.C. Gillette, Safety Razor manufacturer, being greeted by his son King C. Gillette Jr., when the former returned from the Orient on the S.S. Tatsuta Maru recently. The N.Y.K. vessel made a record-breaking trans-Pacific maiden voyage to this city. Gillette has just completed a world tour during which he studied business conditions in the Far East.
As he was approaching the age of 40, King Camp Gillette wasn’t a happy man. Years of working hard but seeing no real rewards for his efforts had disillusioned him, and he had a very negative view of capitalist society on the whole. While his parents had become very successful in their work, he was struggling day after day. Described as a Utopian Socialist, King wrote and published a book called The Human Drift in which he argued against capitalism and suggested a fairer balance of wealth and more cooperation between people. By this point, Gillette had also met and married his wife, Lantie, and had his only child, King Gaines Gillette.