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Show ' HYPNOTISM AT THE MEN'S CLUB Ogden Young Man, Addicted to Drug Habit, Operated on by J. S. I Barker, With Remarkable Success Power of Suggestion and the Influence of the Subjective Mind Explained by I Speaker Boy of Criminal Propensities , is Being Treated. At a dinner given last ovcnlng at the Congregation church by tho Men's club of that church J. S Barter of Salt Ialto, who was tho guest of honor, hon-or, gave a most interesting talk on hypnotism as applied to tho curing of drug users and even In the treatment of chronic criminals. The city comnlsslonors and police judge were present as gucstB of the club. Mr Parker is a young man. connected con-nected with the engineering department depart-ment of the city government in Salt Lake, but for a numher of yoars ho has taken a deep interest in hypnotism and started out a fow years ago to master tho absorbing subject and apparently ap-parently has dono so. Dnllko tho familiar fa-miliar figure of the stago hypnotist, whom you see pictured with piercing black eyes, long, wavy hair and Van Dvko beard, Mr. Barker is fair and bears nono of tho earmarks of a professional pro-fessional hypnotist In opening his remarks, Mr. Bar-kor Bar-kor cited an instance of a young man who was taken to him not long ago in what was said to be tho last stages of tho drug habit. At this time ho was taking GO grains of morphine and CO grains of cocaine a day. This is a very large amount, so much as to ocom "almost incredible. Within four days thero was a marked chango for tho bettor and within ten days the young man voluntarily stopped using tho drug. At the ond" of a monJJi ho was turned out of tho Institution In Salt Lake, apparently cured. This was over six months ago and so far tho patient has not roturncd to tho use of drugs. A caso which is familiar to Ogdcn people Is that of J. McDonald, a young man 23 yoars old who has been in police court several times within the last few months. McDonald, at one timo a telegraph operator, was, at .the tlmo of his last arrest, In a terrible state of emaciation and a physical wreck of most revolting appearance About thrco weeks ago he was taken up by the Men's club of tho Congregational Congre-gational church and placod under Mr. Barker for treatment and there is ev-ory ev-ory prospect that a complete cure will be effected, for Mr. Barker sas that already the young man is using no drug at all and has censed to ask for It, and within tho last two weeks ho has gained ten pounds in weight This In Itself is striking proof of tho wonderful results that can be obtained ob-tained by hypnotic suggestion In the treatment of drug cases and it appears ap-pears to work equally well in the excessive ex-cessive use of whiskj". In explaining tho principle worked on, Mr. Barker said that It Is a well known fact that the mind is divided into two distinct parts, namoly tho subjectivo and tho objoctlvo. When ono Ib asleep the objective mind Is, as It were, annulled, and whatever tho mind takeB cognizance of Is by the subjective mind, as in dreams. It is a psychological phenomenon, well known to alienists, that the subjective subjec-tive mind or sub-conscious solf, has the largor control over tho sense, and it is through influencing the subjective solf to throw off the detrimental habits hab-its formed by tho conscious or objective objec-tive self, that hypnotism Is brought into play. Experiments along this lino are intensely in-tensely interesting and, though thero Is nothing new In hypnotism, tho treatment of the dope" habit through its influence is rather now and the ultimate ul-timate success of tho experiments now being mado will moan much to thousands thou-sands of sufferers and will go far toward to-ward solving a problem which has confronted civic authorities all over the country what to do with, and how to treat, the drug users. "Whllo Mr. Barker does not claim that his troatmont is Infallible nor that it will prove a permanent cure In all cases, tho success that has mot his efforts thus far are most encouraging en-couraging and, provided the cases now apparently cured remain so permanently, perma-nently, nt least 90 per cent of tho cases thus far undertaken shall hae proven successful. When asked If he believed that any one could take up hypnotism and make a success of It, Mr. Barker said that one might or might not succeed, but that ho personally believed that it was a gift which a great many people peo-ple could nover acquire, and that It must be really Inherent rather than acquired. Mr, Barker then went on to say that the large per cent of all hypnotic exhibitions were flagrant frauds, for the ordinary subject In the hypnotic state never' displays the vagaries va-garies so frequently seen on tho stage. "Thero aro professional subjects who can becomo trained in their hypnotic hyp-notic condition, and it is these that one usually sees, though It will occasionally occa-sionally happen that an ideal subject will be found In an audience" In closing his remarks Mr. Barkor said that ho hoped the success of his vwork would soon cnablo him to leave his othor work and devoto all his energies to hypnotism as a preventive pre-ventive or euro of diseases or bad habits. Mr. Barker now has in hl6 caro a young Ogden boy who has had criminal crim-inal propensities and ho Is encouraged encour-aged to believe he can entirely chango the boy's point of view and euro him of his mental weakness. oo |