The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-19
Suruiual Value
By EJBERT HUBBARD.

| new phrase has been added to our vo-
| ca bulary. II is the expression Survival
1 value"
| Actions have survival value according
1 10 the degree of good that grows out OF
| them.
The act of planting tree has sur
| vival value. The man who planted the
tree had the JOY of doing the tree ADDS
TO the value OF his real estate but the
tree will exist long after the man has
turned to dust.
Advertisements that increase goodwill
possess survival value. Literature that
contains wit, valuable information. up
| MT possesses survival value.
| All worthy acts, all honest work. all
sincere expressions Of truth-whether by
| pen or voice-have n survival value,
Civilization is a great, moving mass OF
survival values. augmented, increased,
bettered, refined by every worthy HE,
Man dies. but his influence lives and
adds to the wealth, the happiness and the
welfare Of the world.
Art distinctly has survival value The
artist appeals TO the age 10 come. What
| ne produces is dedicated 10 time, He does
| not look for quick return.
Hate, revenge, jealousy, doubt. mega
| ton, have no survival VaIue. EN- u,o,,. g.,
| Courtesy, kindness, good VIII, rlght IN
! tent, all add to the sum or human nap
pness. Not only do they beneflt the IN
dividual who gives. them out pnt they
survive in various forms and add 10 the
| betterment OF the world.
| All deeds whether work or play, shoulu
| be judged with the idea of survival value
The difference In men is largely In the
way they use the hours that are their
own. Tell me what man does between
win tell you what he. is. Also. VIII
tell you where he will be ten years from
| now.
| muters who ride back and forth night
and morning between their country homes
and the places where they do business
| in the city.
pend this hour. night and morning, IN
skmming the newspapers Some SIT and
| talk Others simply sit:
| Others there be who industriouSly play
ca r1s. For the most part, card playing
has no survival value.
| I know commuters who have played
| ca rds for ten years. These men are no
wiser. no better. and their lives are no
| fuller than they were ten years ago.
| Out Of every hundred commuters you
will find. perhaps: one man VINO carrlGs f,l,.1s
| Wssays Carivle's French Revolution.
Buckles diiistory of Civilization or
some other good book, :.
| the book is his compa Mon. II he merely
peeps into 1t and reads haL page
| day. in five years he VIII DC trans
| formed indvidual-he will be different
| aied from the "bunch.
Emerson added to the wealth Of the
| world when he gave us the expression
| the Law OF Compensation.
| Herbert Spencer did the same for us
when he referred TO the Claw OF Dimln-
| ishing Returns.
Ernest uaeclSel did as much when he
| he pT Points
and the unknown man who flung out the
words, "Surviyal Value" made us his
! debtor.
! The recipe for good writing is write as
YOU feel. but be sure you feel right. But
| before YOU write you must have ar
eouipment-a literary ht-of mouth-fill,
| ing. expressive, far-reachins words and
| phrases. 49, A.,
Through language We touch finger tips
with the noble. the great, the good, the
| competent living or dead. and thus arc
| we made brothers to all those who make
up the sum total OF civilization.