Show BASEBALL FANS V V VARE ARE HYPNOTIZED Ct Curious ious Feature of Am American can Crowds Discovered by bi Mob Psychologist Psychologist V IN N A LECTURE here Prot Prof George L LI I Vincent of Chicago discussed The MInd of the Mob Iob V VIn In Introducing the subject he told of Ule tha study of the mob psychologists in seeking an explanation fOr the se Re Retlo s of people who act in crowds He toW told of SI a Mr Ir Bro Brown n who Is 15 a sober citizen n but goes to Ii a baseball ll game Jame one d day Mr lr Brown becomes inter interested Interested ested In his li home team As the team makes runs hit his warms wann hut but when the other side gets ahead he he be comes omes depressed In the last half of oC oCth th the ninth inning the score stands i to toI I 4 for the visitors Th There re are arf two out and two men on bases baRfs ThingS lire are look lookin in fag bud bad for the home team and ami there Is a deep undercurrent or of excitement Then Case Casey comes to the bat and at ata ata a poInt lines out a home hom run and turns defeat into victory In Instant tant tantI I th the Mr 11 Brown Bron leaps to his feet yelling like a madman H He is another emotional Mr fr Brown He hugs all his nei neighbors thAt he can get et his arms around He puts his hi silk hat On the end of his umbrella and waves It frantically Two hou hours later he s sitting in his home gIvIng noncommittal answers to the questions of hi lila children childr n V Why Thy did Brown act Rrt so 80 at the hell bAil game me It is because he Is partly hypnotized Prof Vincent then told of oC a 8 political Nt rally II TIe There is IR R a bra brass band and R a Jar large f audience audien has gathered in t ex expectation x of hearing the great reat spell spellbinder hinder binder A committee on applause has been stationed In various parts ot of the hall hail to Ruse cause an uprising of the people If you want to hAve R a uprising of oC thE people arrive arrhe on ached ale ule time said the lecturer you ou must provide for It in advance At the pro proper r moment the hand be begins gins to play a lively lIely air and three figures appear at t one of the doors the crowd is expectantly watch One of them is the spellbinder The committee on applause takes Its cue eue and starts an ovation The peo pIe wildly At a mIssionary convention At Old Orchard Maine a crowd of who had an average hand band ott on their pocketbooks gave gRe for after hearing R ai address by a returned Men en took watches from t fi and d WOmen stripped their thir fingers erl or of rines and threw thre them on the I I ct collection slates In S 3 women gathered to hear P derew 1 The They were Werf held beld spoil round lound hv by the thO music musi and refused to lt It th the pianist go until some men came caine In Inand Inand and took tb piano out bodil bodily Professor Vincent told these incidents in detail as 35 illustrating what a crowd wilt will ao 10 when in unison He re to historical Cru Cm sa des and like events He tl told of the I V Jumbo craze In London when hen Mr Bar Barhum 11 num hum u ed the London pre press s for some free about and for fot ten days London went wild over or I Jumbo a of Jumbo were every everywhere where A mInister ter preached ld a rm tn Ol Jumbo Children were pre after him and 1 1204 ho p of buns were sent I to the elephant with personal letters I Every crowd Is not a 8 J psychological I crowd Prof Vincent ski A psycho psychological 1 logical crowd ha has four There i Is con or ci attention on Is If off ocr hi lila nard guard as to hi hith his th the central to ward hile disappears r arid the t psycho tho l is ii capable of receiving sult Thc Tle told of nf Ut Ind b hr It a p psychologist in which a 11 ayoung I Iy y young mat man was ed and t th that t wh when n a Entered th the room ha would rise strike a mateR match arM and light ht the gas Then rt 1 he t was awakened from hi iden D and the subject and hypnotist to This subject h tl 11 r n or of athin that had been n told him But the minute a per r sim the room he arose and the he rIte although h the room oss S already lighted When ask asked l why h he did It h he stid 11 ho di did I not knew but t the t Idea just into his to do It A second and a thIrd time th the same r ran t 9 him when on entered rd the THO riot Title Pr Prof f Vine nt 1 Ic sin Hn I to Of be t tOwer lower self rt Itself over or the higher f lf of the he duT He elaborated on th tho tits arts I of the spellbinder r tellin telling how n H medicIne vendor endor on the street corner I certain until thir thi t iv out of If fifty ft men ii in hi i nN nut their hands t 1 their backs to rep ftp t Ive done it myself said aid 1 Prof Vincent I The r work f on hi audienCe e with r U I tush driving home hi his ar I to dO so 1 TIt The next I day the same bless eone to the T nian an w who wits in the audience and he jn il I It he thought jt it out Ken Kan Cur Cor X N Y V I |