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CORPORATION
BY
KING C. GILLETTE
THE
BIRTH
OF
SOCIAL
AND
INDUSTRIAL
SCIENCE
" "
Mr. present writer and inventor of
Gillette, the World Corporation, has for
many years been interested in social and industrial problems, and has published
three books upon these subjects; namely, "The Human Drift," 1894, "Gillette's
Social Redemption," 1907, and "Gillette's Industrial Solution," 1908. The
books were written by Mr. M. L. Severy.
last tu>o
"
These three books in their exposition of Mr. Gillette's ideas of World Corpora-
tion" outlined and proposed certain protective details of organization then con-
sidered advisable, but which Mr. Gillette does not now consider necessary. There-
fore, the following Charter, By-laws, and Prospectus, and the opinions expressed,
should be read as a self-contained proposition, separate and apart from any previous
writings, and as exhibiting Mr. Gillette's individual views and final conclusions, his
personal judgment being that the people can be best protected and safeguarded by
"
Publicity and the World-wide Character of World Corporation."
This statement is written at request of Mr. Severy and to guard against any
misunderstanding by those who have read any of the previous works.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
PART ONE.
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION 15
PUBLICITY 51
POLITICS 54
PART Two.
MAN CORPORATE 94
PART THREE.
THE PROBLEM 99
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REASON 118
CONSERVATION 184
A PREDICTION 205
PART FOUR.
ENTHUSIASM 217
METROPOLIS 220
OMEGA . 238
PART ONE
WORLD CORPORATION
PROSPECTUS
WORLD
CORPORATION.
To The Public:
The following Board of Directors and Officers
have been elected at the initial organization
of World Corporation.
DIRECTORS.
KING C. GILLETTE, President and Treasurer.
EDWARD S. CROCKETT,
Vice-President and Secretary.
CHARLES A. GAINES.
BEACON BUILDING,
No. 6 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass., U.S.A.
Rooms 416 and 417,
WORLD CORPORATION.
WORLD
COR PORAT ION."
ENTERING WEDGE.
porate machine.
WORLD CORPORATION
CHARTER
THE CHARTER.
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of Arizona
Sfrritorial Auditor
WORLD
COR PORAT ION."
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION.
WORLD CORPORATION.
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holders.
poration.
Certificates of stock of Fifty (50) or more shares
may be registered with the Treasurer of the Cor-
Corporation.
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are made.
its parts.
the meeting.
R. M. PEABODY [SEAL.]
M. T. STONE [SEAL.]
TERRITORY OF ARIZONA,
COUNTY OF MARICOPA,
April, 1914.
M. A. PICKETT,
Notary Public.
[NOTARIAL SEAL.]
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TERRITORY OF ARIZONA,
COUNTY OF MARICOPA,
thereof.
Phoenix, Arizona.
W. C. FOSTER,
Territorial Auditor.
WORLD CORPORATION
BY-LAWS
WORLD CORPORATION
BY-LAWS.
STOCKHOLDERS.
STOCK CERTIFICATES.
DENOMINATION.
and October.
Dividends will only be paid on registered shares
that have been issued and registered for a full cal-
quarterly periods.
Dividends will be paid by check of the Corpora-
tion, or, upon request, dividends may be paid in
shares of the Corporation at par and credited to
Share Account.
istered shares.
DIRECTORS (GENERAL).
"
At the organization of WORLD CORPORATION"
not less than three nor more than twenty-five Di-
rectors shall be elected, the number to be determined
by vote of the organizers at said organization meet-
ing and thereafter at each annual stockholders'
DIRECTORS (SPECIAL).
SECURITIES.
"
All Securities purchased by WORLD CORPORA-
"
TION" shall be forwarded to the WORLD CORPO-
RATE CONGRESS" and be deposited with the World
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TERM OF OFFICE.
INVESTIGATION OF SECURITIES.
organized.
NOTE.
IT IS HOPED AND BELIEVED THAT THE NUMBER OF
SHARES ISSUED INSIDE OF FIVE YEARS IN THE UNITED
STATES WILL NOT BE LESS THAN FIFTY BILLION.
This, on the five-million-dollar representative basis
would give a National Board of Directors amounting
to ten thousand members in the. United States, less
chinery.
existence.
ing. Individual man will live his life and pass into
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'WORLD CORPORATION" makes the absorption
and confines the path of opera-
of industry so simple,
tion within such narrow and rigid lines, that the in-
the true system, when all will be born free and equal,
and THE EQUITABLE RELATION OF EACH INDIVIDUAL
TO EVERY OTHER INDIVIDUAL, SOCIALLY AND INDUS-
TRIALLY, WILL BE BASED ON INTELLIGENCE.
PUBLICITY.
"
Publicity will be a permanent feature of WORLD
CORPORATION," and to this end a weekly paper
will be published, to be known as "WORLD COR-
PORATION NEWS," containing a summary of the
finances of the Corporation each week and a list
To the Public.
After twenty years of study, the author presents
to the public his complete system of "WORLD COR-
PORATION," together with the Charter necessary to
its operation, and has opened the first office of the
CORPORATE PARTY.
I AM A CORPORATIONIST
I BELIEVE in "WORLD CORPORATION"
By the People For the People, as
opposed to corporation by Individuals
for Individuals.
H
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centive to progress.
"
part of WORLD CORPORATION." The only ques-
tion that arises is, Shall this system be put in
industry?
THE "AUTOMATIC LABOR SYSTEM" INVOLVES THE
ESTABLISHMENT OF A LABOR BUREAU AS A DEPART-
MENT OF "WORLD CORPORATION," this department
to employ all labor of all industries brought under
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SYMBOL
OF
" WORLD
CORPORATION"
THE
EDUCATIONAL AND INDUSTRIAL
PYRAMID
The above pyramid is the symbol of the Educational and Industrial progress of
the individual. The horizontal divisions represent the different planes upward
until "WORLD CORPORATION CONGRESS" is attained, whereas the divisions of the
pyramid from base to apex represent the Grand Divisions of Industry all of which
finally merge into the "WORLD CORPORATE CONGRESS." Under this system the
individual is free to choose his path of inclination, and his progress cannot be
barred.
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Divisions of Industry.
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Under WORLD CORPORATION" KNOWLEDGE WILL
BE UNIVERSAL, and intelligence and gradation in the
INCENTIVE TO AMBITION.
trous consequences.
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MAN CORPORATE.
HE ABSORBS, ENFOLDS, ENCOMPASSES, AND MAKES THE WORLD HIS OWN. HE WILL DO MORE;
HE WILL PENETRATE THE CONFINES OF SPACE, AND MAKE IT DELIVER UP ITS
SECRETS AND POWER, FOR MlND, THE CHILD OF THE GREAT OvER-
SOCL OF CREATION is INFINITE AND ETERNAL.
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life and die and pass away, their place being taken
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became a reality.
positions of advantage.
As civilization advanced, slavery became a source
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destroyed.
Slaves were the spoils of battle in early civili-
dren's children.
own life, and all the world will lend itself to his
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We are fools.
These are all evils, but they are evils which cannot
be entirely avoided; for our government is unpre-
pared for the great evolution that is taking place.
Its laws are inadequate and adjustment slow and
difficult.
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happiness.
The mistake of many is their willingness to refer
acquire knowledge.
That man is naturally ambitious and progressive
is demonstrated by the child, who, at school, has no
incentive to ambition except that which is based on
system.
The construction of the World Industrial Machine
independent.
The building of a scientific industrial machine
would also mean the turning of all lawyers, bank-
man or government. It is a
runaway mechanism,
with no brain at the throttle. Under "WORLD
CORPORATION" the machine will be comprehensive,
understood in all its parts, and under perfect control.
LIFE INSURANCE.
LAW.
POLITICS.
porate system.
CORPORATION.'
TRIBUTARY INDUSTRIES.
present system.
IT SHOULD BE PLAIN THAT WE COULD STILL PRO-
system.
POLITICS IS BUSINESS.
position.
Disinterested patriotism is a fiction, or at least
BUTION.
The most serious obstruction to material progress
System.
The truth is, the Republican and Democratic ships
are manned by professional politicians, grafters and
thieves to whom Captain Kidd and his pirate crew
were saints and prophets by comparison, and are
turbance.
equity.
The Standard Oil Company, on account of .its
produced.
It is only necessary in imagination to wipe a
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Under WORLD CORPORATION" agriculture will
become a science. North America and the rest
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Under WORLD CORPORATION" wheat will be
product.
demanded required.
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Under WORLD CORPORATION" the farmer, the
nal investments.
CRIME.
him.
Man is naturally honest and inherently progress-
ive; but his struggle for life's necessities and wealth
has brought to the surface every evil passion and
separable.
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ENTHUSIASM.
system is chaos.
Lawrence River.
By striking a circle at Buffalo of forty miles radius,
as shown on the accompanying map, a territory
is outlined that is perfectly adapted to the needs
of a great city: first, because the water supply
is inexhaustible, and flows uncontaminated from
the Great Lakes; second, because the city lies
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