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Preface
At Lyceum, Sunday and Monday evenings, August 24th and 25th, 1924,
I delivered THE HOUR HAS STRUCK. In those talks, I set forth a
prophetic set of principles correlated with a set of practices as allied to
and with the Neurocalometer as it then applied itself in our Chiropractic
profession.
The other day, I again read those talks carefully, with the hope of
finding some place and some way where I could change the principles
or practices therein set forth; whether I would or could TODAY omit
something or nothing from what was laid down THEN. After thotful
scrutiny, I today say I would not change a fundamental. We have gone
thru improvements of service; corrected mistakes; changed models and
stepped-up efficiency of use of the NCM;—BUT THE PRINCIPLES AND
PRACTICES REMAIN THE SAME. All of this after seven years of a
bitterly contested and most humanly gruelling test of whether what was
laid down was right.
Seven years! Much water has gone under the bridge. Criminations
and recriminations have spread themselves over thousands of printed pages;
reams of letters have crossed the continent, many condemning, some com
mending; definite promises were made re process patent, and lived up to;
others said it couldn’t be done, and produced infringements; were prose
cuted and convicted. Resistance instruments came and were offered as
a possible substitute; thousands of dollars were thrown into human sewers
to try to scheme, sell, and serve something “ just as good” ; human lives
have been trifled with by the great mass of unwashed; friendships have
been split asunder; leaders have toppled Humpty-Dumpty; unknowns have
climbed to the top and now lead; organizations and work that took 25
years to build were washed away as tho a straw, by the flood of ill-will—
the net result of the BJ-NCM tornado is that CHIROPRACTIC has been
rebuilded; the principles made into sciences and proven; practices reversed
from guess-work to definite and exacting sciences; and, what is more, the
NCM has come thru unscathed, unscratched, with a healthier substantial
daily growth in our work.
And what about him who staked his all on the truth of his convictions;
who was willing to face the personal tirades, the tornado that seemed to
sweep all before it? His convictions deeper; his experience with human
nature more mature; his confidence in mankind badly fractured; his am
bitions more aspiring; the gulf between himself and people in general,
wider; taking statements with a grain of salt, and measuring people by
deeds; more lenient to the faults of others, and more considerate of his
own mistakes. It has been a trying time, which tried all persons involved
on either side of the question.
NCMs were leased; many thrown on the shelf, taken down, dusted off,
used, and again discarded. Many leased, called fakes, thrown away— only
to again get them out and finally prove them constructive in a permanent
way. After this upheaval of our work, thousands of thrown-away NCMs
have been exchanged for Model No. 2, and are in constant use. Thousands
of new leases have been made and are in permanent use. After seven
years of trials, troubles, and tribulations, THERE ARE MORE NCMs IN
USE TODAY THAN EVER BEFORE, permanently used by SATISFIED
chiropractors who KNOW what they can do in improving Chiropractic
with the sick.
At Lyceum, Sunday and Monday evenings, August 24th and 25th, 1924,
I delivered THE HOUR HAS STRUCK. In those talks, I set forth a
prophetic set of principles correlated with a set of practices as allied to
and with the Neurocalometer as it then applied itself in our Chiropractic
profession.
The other day, I again read those talks carefully, with the hope of
finding some place and some way where I could change the principles
or practices therein set forth; whether I would or could TODAY omit
something or nothing from what was laid down THEN. After thotful
scrutiny, I today say I would not change a fundamental. We have gone
thru improvements of service; corrected mistakes; changed models and
stepped-up efficiency of use of the NCM;—BUT THE PRINCIPLES AND
PRACTICES REMAIN THE SAME. All of this after seven years of a
bitterly contested and most humanly gruelling test of whether what was
laid down was right.
Seven years! Much water has gone under the bridge. Criminations
and recriminations have spread themselves over thousands of printed pages;
reams of letters have crossed the continent, many condemning, some com
mending; definite promises were made re process patent, and lived up to;
others said it couldn’t be done, and produced infringements; were prose
cuted and convicted. Resistance instruments came and were offered as
a possible substitute; thousands of dollars were thrown into human sewers
to try to scheme, sell, and serve something “ just as good” ; human lives
have been trifled with by the great mass of unwashed; friendships have
been split asunder; leaders have toppled Humpty-Dumpty; unknowns have
climbed to the top and now lead; organizations and work that took 25
years to build were washed away as tho a straw, by the flood of ill-will—
the net result of the BJ-NCM tornado is that CHIROPRACTIC has been
rebuilded; the principles made into sciences and proven; practices reversed
from guess-work to definite and exacting sciences; and, what is more, the
NCM has come thru unscathed, unscratched, with a healthier substantial
daily growth in our work.
And what about him who staked his all on the truth of his convictions;
who was willing to face the personal tirades, the tornado that seemed to
sweep all before it? His convictions deeper; his experience with human
nature more mature; his confidence in mankind badly fractured; his am
bitions more aspiring; the gulf between himself and people in general,
wider; taking statements with a grain of salt, and measuring people by
deeds; more lenient to the faults of others, and more considerate of his
own mistakes. It has been a trying time, which tried all persons involved
on either side of the question.
NCMs were leased; many thrown on the shelf, taken down, dusted off,
used, and again discarded. Many leased, called fakes, thrown away— only
to again get them out and finally prove them constructive in a permanent
way. After this upheaval of our work, thousands of thrown-away NCMs
have been exchanged for Model No. 2, and are in constant use. Thousands
of new leases have been made and are in permanent use. After seven
years of trials, troubles, and tribulations, THERE ARE MORE NCMs IN
USE TODAY THAN EVER BEFORE, permanently used by SATISFIED
chiropractors who KNOW what they can do in improving Chiropractic
with the sick.
