Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1913 — “KULL THE UMPIRE!”—WHY? [ARTICLE]

“KULL THE UMPIRE!”—WHY?

Prof. J. E. Boodln of Kansas Says It Is Natural Result of Fusion of Several Minds.

"When the crowd in the bleachers shout “Kill the umpire,” It Is only the natural result of a fusion of minds, according to Prof. J. E. Boodin of the University of Kansas, who addressed the Western Philosophical association at Northwestern university. “The demand for the life of the umpire is brought about by a peculiar condition,” said Professor Boodin. “He makes a decision which does not appeal to some spectator. That spectator so Informs his neighbor, and gradually the entire crowd in the stand Is brought to think that the umpire should not be allowed to live. The mind of a crowd generally thinks in the same channel as an individual. Under certain conditions a hundred people will think the same as a single person. In witnessing an unusual oocurrence the crowd will think the same as the Individual.”