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Volume 34—No. 30
A Shot In The Arm
(Read Story Below Editorial)
After a Collegian campaign last year, President Hetzel ap
pointed a committee to study the College Health service and to
recommend remedies to combat obvious inefficiencies.
The committee report recognized certain deficiencies in the
Service, placing the blame on insufficient funds with which to
carry out a full program. The committee studied free hospitaliza
tion. During the summer, two'new doctors were added to the
personnel of the service. Apparently the question was solved for
a while. On September 17 the Collegian expressed the hope that
this addition to the staff would help the conditions and improve
the Service.,
BUT IT DID NOT! 1 Ironically enough, three days later Dr.
Ritenour was muffing a student case that added personnel or add
ed money could not solve. Robert Brubaker, a sophomore, re
ported for medical aid with broken vertebrae in his back. Four
days later he was discharged with his back still'sore. NOT A
SINGLE X-RAY HAD BEEN TAKEN. .
After a week of pain, Brubaker went to Lancaster and con
sulted a leading physician. A simple X-ray revealed a broken
vertebrae. Brubaker was placed in a cast. He returned to school
four days later and attended classes for six weeks in the cast.
He had missed almost two weeks of classes, because Dr. Ritenour
did not bother to use the X-ray.' The physician Brubaker consult
ed wrote a scathing letter to the head of the Health service, de
nouncing his tactics. , 1 - .
Since that time Dr. Ritenour has evidenced no interest in his
work, has done little to convince students that he took seriously
the oath required to enter the profession. \
At Ithaca, when State played Cornell this fall. Sever Tor
etti, a guard, collapsed as he left the field. It took Dr. Ritenour
fully five minutes to reach the prostrated player from his seat
on the bench. He was too interested in the game to bother. It
is commonly known that athletes do not wish to be treated for
injuries by Dr. Ritenour. It is commonly said that players sent
to Ritenour by coaches, asking for treatment or examination, sel
dom receive what they seek. The doctors, players and managers
assert, does not receive suggestions kindly.
During the intramural season, another sophomore, John
Byrd, was injured in the head* during a boxing match. Taken to
the infirmary, he waited four hours for a doctor to appear. '.This
incident is similar to the treatment. of,a visiting Temple baseball
. pihy er.Jast,,sping.hUvi^tSimilai'ttb'th.ei;treattrient;acc‘orded 'persons
injured in an automobile accident at the. corner of Centre drive
and Burrowes. street this fall'. .
These instances show clearly where the trouble with the Col
lege Health Service is. All the added appropriations in the world
could not have prevented them. They illustrate clearly the inef
ficiency and lackadaisical attitude of one man.
The addition of personnel has not stopped infirmary atroci
ties. The head of tile service by his attitude has demonstrated
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Cracked Bone Not Worthy
Of X-Ray By Dr. Ritenour
Brubaker Goes Home To Receive Treatment;
Spends 6 Weeks In Cast; Doctor Rapped
An.inside story about the medical treatment offered students by Dr. Jos
eph P. Ititenour, head .of the College Health service, was told the Collegian
yesterday by Robert E. Brubaker ’-10, who suffered cracked vertebrae in a
touch football game last September 11
: Brubaker told of receiving the inj
the Infirmary on September HO for trei
and paralysis. Dr. Ritenour took a‘
blood test, Brubaker said, put him tu I
bed for four days and discharged him
when he was able to .walk. Brubaker
said that no X-ray of his injured back'
was taken and that the day lie was I
released from the Infirmary he suf
fered pain when'lie sat down in a’
chair.
The sophomore missed classes fur a
week while lie nursed his injury, then
sought the advice of a Dr. Alley in
Lancaster, his home town. Dr. Alley
immediately took an X-ray,, Brubaker
testified, and discovered Lite cracked!
vertebrae. Brubaker was placed in a
cast and was released from a Lancas
ter hospital four days' later. He re
turned to college and resumed his
studies after missing two weeks of
classes.
Brubaker said that Dr. Alley wrote
a scathing letter to Ritenour, flaying
him for his treatment. ’Brubaker wore
the cast six weeks and hus fully re-
covered.
OTHER MEDICAL
TREATMENT CITED
\ The Brubaker incident brings to
mind several such reports of similar
treatment to students at the .Infirm
ary this fall.
John J. Byrd '4O told the Collegian
that he was injured m an iutramural
boxing bout during the progress of
the elimination round lust month. He
was sent to the Infirmary, by Coach
Leo Houck when he said that the'blow
lie received; on the head caused him
to have half-vision. Byrd testified
that he waited in the Infirmary four
hours while nurses were unsuccess
ful in getting Dr. Ritenour to attend
to the case. Dr. Ritenour finally came,
An Editorial
jury on a Sunday and of reporting to
jatmeiit when he suffered extreme pain
Byrd said, and administered treat
ment.
On September-UO, in full view of
B.OUU persons, Sever J. Toretti ’39,
guard on the football team, collapsed
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( Idiot’s Delight’ Whirls About
International Merry-Go-Round
Imagine a situation that brings to
gether, under one roof, in a very stra
tegic spot,' at the outset of the next
war, a German, an .Englishman, a
Frenchman, a Spaniard, an Italian, a
Russian, and an. American—and if
you possessed the masterful ability of
Robert E. Sherwood, .possibly you
could write as brilliuntly u successful
play as the Penn State Players will
give Thursday and Friday evenings,
January 20 and 21.
In. “Idiot’s Delight," a Pulitzer
prize-winning Breadway hit: that will
have its first lion-professional presen
tation here by'the Players, Mr. Slier
wood creates a number of interesting
situations, spieeifTJy many humorous
lines, that is a powerful indictment
of war, international munitions-mon
gers, and fanatical nationalists.
The story revolves about Harry'
Van (Herbert S. Yanofsky '4O), an
American 'showman, who is touring
Europe with his troupe of six-danc
ing girls, and stopping at a moun
tain resort in the Italian Alps on the
border of Switzerland and' France,
near an Italian army flying field.
STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY, JANUARY XI, 1938
Hans Kindler
Plays Here At
8 Tomorrow
Artists Course Offers
NatT Symphony As
Second Number
Famed Orchestra In
Return Engagement
.Acclaimed as the greatest of
the younger conductors. Dr.
Hans Kindler and his seven
year-olid orchestral “prodigy,”
the National Symphony orches
tra of "Washington, D. C., will
appear in Schwab auditorium to
morrow night at 8 o’clock as the
second number of the 1937-38
Artists Course.
Kindler appeared here with his or
chestra for the first time on (he 1935-
2(5 program when the group, although
only in its fourth-season, was never-'
theicss being acclaimed nationally j
and internationally. Last year andi
again this year Kindler has been
brought back at the request .of* the
course subscribers who by.ballot se
lected the National Symphony as the
most popular number in the series.
* Played as. Guests of First Lady
Kindler undertook the task in 1931
of organizing a symphony orchestra
in tiie National capital with material
young in- age and experience. With
the financial support oj subscribers
in Washington, he speedily led the
newly organized group through the
difficult first stages of development
and they were soon making national
tours at the request of music lovers
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‘Soose Will Get-
Places, If —Leo
Warner Brothers Star To Back
Penn State Boxer; Called A
Second Gibbons
A brilliant .career. in professional
boxing ranks was predieted for Penn
Slate's Billy Soosc at the annual
meeting of the Eastern Intercollegi
ate Boxing Association in New York
City—if he can stand the gaff.
Leading booster of Soose's stock j
naturally was the ‘‘Old Master” him
self-—Leo Houck. As the New York,
World-Telegram reported, Houck was:
highly optimistic of Soose's chances,
hi the pro ring, picturing the lanky 1
155-pound Eastern Intercollegiate
champ as a second Mike Gibbons, a
battering iniiglitcr, will) dynumite
packed in either hand.
Soose, unbeaten in 154 amateur
fights, will leave for the Coast next
summer to enter the pro ranks under
the -management of Dick PowelL'War
tier'Brothers movie star. He. is now
under contract to a Farrell neighbor.
Twelve-ounce gloves, minus all
[hand-bandaging, were adopted at the'
meeting for use in the championship
tourney here March II and J 2. Ten
ounce'gloves had been in vogue pre
viously. Professionals use five-ounce
mitts.
Also stopping at the hotel are a
munitions manufacturer (.J. Harold
Bernstein *39), his Russian mistress j
(Ruth Shtasel ’4lh a newly married, i
English couple (Jane C. Fames '39
and Louis B. Hall ’39). a German
scientist (Bernard Freed ’39), an
Italian aviation officer (Jack L. Wol
gin *3B), and a French radical (Her
bert S. Doroshow ’4O).
These people find themselves at this
border resold just as an Italian air
raid on Paris, from the nearby field,
precipitates a war between France
and Italy. Under the stress of. the
crisis tiie various internationals take
an about-face in their- national and
international philosophies.
Mr. Shenvood manages to weave a
plot about: tiie American entertainer
and the Russian mistress, Irene, that
presents powerful' drama,
an abundance of comedy and farce,
musical, interludes, melodrama, and
love interest. The play teems with
suspense and excitement and ends as
the hotel is bombed, with Harry Van
and Irene .singing as bombs burst
about them.
| Calls Class Meeting
john d. Lennon
Senior class president, who has set
the "first ,meeting, of the class for
Wednesday night, January 19, in the
Home Economies auditorium at 7:30
o’clock.
State Continues
Wassermdn Week
College Gives Maximum Number
Of Tests Per Day; Results
Obtained In Week
With more than 125 men and wom
en students having taken Wasserman
tests here last Thursday, Friday, and
Saturday, and thousands being test
ed for syphilis all over .the stale, the
State Department of.'Health has ex
tended the observance of Wasserman
Week through * this week, it was an
nounced yesterday by Dr. Joseph P.
Ritenour, director lof.-: tiie College
health service. •
Dr. Ritenour. stated: that laboratory
,CaeUitioa'-'-fQr‘-t6kinig:'fee, .blood- -speci
mens taken allowechthat a maximum
of 40 or 45 . tests could be given per
day. This figure ims been reached
each of the three days last week, and
if the rush continues the number will
have to be limited to this amount
each day, lie said.
Results Available.in Week
Results of the tests will be avail
able in about a week, just as soon as
proper examination of the specimens
can be made by tiie bacteriology de
partment under Lite supervision of
Prof. Michael A. Farrell.
Dr. Ritenour also stressed that
Wasserman tests 'will he given
throughout tiie year, and that stu
[dents not able to take the test this
[week are urged U> do so any time it
jls convenient. The tests arc given in
I the College dispensary in Old Main,
j The State Department of Healtii
jiias supplied Lite facilities for making
the tests to flte College, and appar
ently did not anticipate the number
that would have the tests made, thus
explaining tiie limit of 40 or 45 per
duy placed by Dr. Ritenour.
Music Units Plan
Concert Season
Glee Club And Varsity Quartet
To Make Debut At Senior
Ball Next Month
I Reorganized recently- for the aca
demic year. the. Glee Club and Vac
-1 sity Quartet of the College, are pluu
■ nlng an active season.
[ These units, rehearsing under the
I direction of Richard W. Graut, diree
! tor of the College music aud lu charge
i of the club, will make their debut at
! the Senior Ball in February. Compli-
I meutary concerts will begin In March.
I The spying voneevt tow includes ap
jpearnnees in Lancaster, Norristown,
[Cheltenham and Radnor,
j The Glee Club Is composed of 75
! male studeuts. hi additions, tbe.Hy-
Los. a group of 24 students interested
[lu popular vocal music, has been
; formed.
The Varsity Quartet'is made up of
Frederick H. Serif '3B, first tenor;
Richard W. Tyrell '39. second tenor:
Joseph K. Cook *3B. baritone; and Da
vld'P. Cjabonie *3B, bass.
, .
Library Seeks Copies
Of Collegian For File
The College library is in need of
. Collegian issues- of the following
dates: Sept 17, 21, and 24, and Nov.
"We will appreciate any of these
numbers to help us complete our
files," Willard P. Lewis, College li
brarian, said.
Co-Ed Rushing
Nears 2-Week
Silent Period
All Sorority Contacts
Are Barred After
Noon Saturday
Pan-Hellenic Ball Set
For Friday Evening
The first silent period in wo
men’s sorority rushing will ex
tend over two weeks, starting
Saturday at noon and ending
! January 29. From noon on the
! fifteenth until noon on the. twen
ty-ninth, sorority women will be;
prohibited from contacting their
rushees in any manner.
Panhellenic CduncH's constitution
defines “silence" as "no communica
tion or conversation between sorority
members and rushees.” The council
stipulates along with this that the
sororities must refrain from inviting
any rushees during silent period to
parties that will be held when rushing
is resumed.
Silent Periods
In addition to the two consecutive
weeks of silence, there will be an
other silent period preceding the for
mal dinners held by each of the sor
orities Saturday night, February 2.
From 8:30 p. in. Thursday, February
10, until 5 p. m. Friday, rushees will,
not be contacted.
The last silent period occurs at tiie
close of tiie rushing season. It will
extend from 1U p. m. the night of tiie
formal diimcvs until the following
day, when bids arc issued.
Not only tiie active members of the
ten national women’s sororities on
campus arc bound by Panhellenic rul
ings in regard to silent periods.
Pledges, alumnae, • patronesses, and.
sponsors are.'alsb required to observe
these rules. For infractions of any
laws, Panhellenic has the authority
to penalize the sororities.
Bail at Nittany Lion
Friday, the night before silent pe
riod goes into effect, the annual Pan
lielicnic ball will be held at the Nit
tany Lion Inn. All sorority women
arc entitled to attend along with
those invited by the Council. Wom
en students attending the dance will
be allowed a two o’clock permission.
A condensed schedule of the , re
mainder of the rushing season is as
follows:
Noon, January 15-Noon, January
29—silent period.
8:30 p. m., February 11-5 p. m.,
February 12—silent period.
February 12—Formal dinners
-10 .p. in., February 12-issuaucc of
bids—silent period.
Harry M. Pennington
Dies of Heart Attack
Harry, fll. Pennington, for many
years in charge of the locker room at
the Armory and Recreation hall, died
of a heart attack Saturday afternoon
at 4:30 o'clock.
He had been an employee of the
College for twenty-fdur dears and
will be remembered by the, students
and faculty for his pleasant person
ality and constant smile. He was 58
years old.
.Funeral services will be held front
his home, 538 East College avenue
this-afternoon at. 2 o’clock.
H. P. Study Exposes Student
Desires—Dance, Date, Drink
In an extended study of that elu
sive creature, the Penn State male,
it lias recently been found that his
favorite occupations and the latent
desires in his bosom in the order
named are to dance, date, and drink.
Choosing houseparty week-end as
that period wherein the latent desires
of the guinea pig (P. S. male) conic
to the surface more t!mn any other.
Prof. William M. Lepley’s class in
experimental psychology put tiie sub
ject under close observation and ques
tioned him in tiie .posLliouseparty pe
riod before tiie fumes of the week-end
had entirely cleared.away.
The student in his post-H. P. fog
made a very willing and easy-to-han
dle subject, coming through nobly
with a variety of interesting, some
startling, data as the answer to the
one question asked, "What impresses
you as your biggest moment or ex
perience of the houseparty week
end?’’ The question was asked to
some 08 tired men and an equal num
ber of bewildered women who had at-
| In Charge Of Gowns |
CHARLES R. CAMPBELL
who, with George W. Merriman,
heads the cap and gown committee.
Also serving on the committee are:
Henry H. Cohen, Ned E. King, and
for the first semester, John F. Jage
man and Robert V. Donato.
Heading the invitations commit
tee is Russell A. Golamb and Dan
DeMarino. Serving with them are:
Robert H. Dcwalt, Maurice Petros
ky and John D. Brisbane.
Orders for invitations and caps
and gowns for first semester gradu
ation must be handed in to the Stu
dent Union office before five o'clock
tomorrow afternoon
Rosen Completes
Book Mart Plan
Exchange To Sell Books During
Two-Week Period On Cash
Basis To Buyers
Final arrangements for the. cslab
.isiimetit of the. second-hand l>obk ex
change in the exhibition room of the
Library for a two-week period begin
ning Wednesday, January 20, have
oeen made by Samuel J. Rosen ’39,
chairman of the Independent clique
Committee, which is running the ex
change.
The exchange will remain open
from 9 a. m. to 5* p. m. eaclt day.ex
cept Sundays for the two weeks, be
ginning in the middle of final exami
nation week and continuing until
Wednesday. February 9. Permission
to carry out their plan was granted
he Independent party committee just
’efcrc the .Christmas recess by Presi
’ent Ralph D. iletzel for a one-year
rial period.
‘Run oil Cash Basis'
II is the plan of the committee "to
nave tiie student set Ins own price on
.he book lie wishes to sell, said price
not to exceed two-thirds value of tiie
book, and leave it at tiie exchange,
which will make every effort to find a
buyer.
"If tiie book is sold, tiie seller and
buyer will each pay a (ive-cent serv
ice charge. If Line book is not sold
there will be no charge made." Ro
sen stressed that when a book is sold
die seller will receive casli for the
transaction.
“The plan of the committee." Rosen
stated, "is to run the exchange on a
cash basis. A record will be kept of
each book turned in to us and the stu
dent will be told to. call back in five
days to find out whether the book lias
been sold. If it is sold before that
time we will notify him," he suid.
tended the affair
. For the men, the three "DV oi col
lege easily led tiie field: 23 named the
dance, 22 named the date, and 18
named .the. drink. 'Because of the
large number of different situations
described, they were divided into 17
different categories for the sake of
convenience and brevity. Following
these iu importance to Liie largest
number of students were the football
game, general freedom, big apple,
food, watching antics of others, the
informality, seeing the gang, the
Thespian show, going to bed. and the
raid on the Rathske’lar.
The co-eds attending Houseparty
had tiie same three first places with
the exception of "drink," which came
eighth on milady's list. The football
game came third with tiie informal
ity, going to bed, and the big apple
Two factors that remained ab
solutely blank for the men appear on
the co-ed list, the formality of the af-
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Z 658 PRICE FIVE CENTS
Room Survey
Finds Places
For 1500 Men
Canvass In Bellefonte
Almost Completed
Says Director
2,765 Homes Reached
During Local Survey
Rooms for 1736 of the expect
ed 1,500 workers to be employed
gram have already been found
on the College’s building pro
gram have already been found,
George R. Lucas ’34, survey di
rector, said yesterday. The can
vass in Bellefonte is almost com
plete.
Boarding facilities have been
secured for 1329 persons. Rooms
for approximately 200 couples
have been located by the can
vass.
In State College borough, facilities
for 496 men have been found, with
boarding places for 425. In Bellefonte,
rooms for 337 people and board for
153 have thus far been located.
Contact 2,213 Homes
In the survey 2765 homeowners
were canvassed and of this number,
530 reported favorable to housing and
boarding workers, who arc expected
to be here by February 15.
The survey, which spotted tho
rooms in a 22-mile circle around the
town, found places for 34 men in the
one-mile area. Two miles from the
borough 22, three miles 24, four miles
78, six miles 74, eight miles 18, and
. 10 miles 118.
In the area between 10 and 14
miles, rooms were secured for 768, 18
milcs':2B,-and'li2'miiefe 27.
Towns included in the survey arc
State ’ College, Pine Grove Mills,
Boalsburg, Stormstown, Lemont, Axe
mann, Pleasant Gap, Centre Hall,
Zion, Potters Mills, Hublersburg,
Milesburg, and Bellefonte.
College To Build
New Wood Track
Designed For Indoor .Trackmen
By Dave Bauer, Oval Has
Special Features
A new board track is now under
construction by the College Cor the
use of indoor trackmen.
The track, which is 176 yards in
circumference and has railroad-bank
ed lurtis, was designed by Dave Bauer
38, senior trackman and student in
architecture. Bauer, a sprinter and
hurdler, lias been a member of the
varsity team for the past two years
and is one of tiie lettermcn available
for this year's competition.
Nine feet wide at the turns, the
track is to have a straightaway
twelve feet in width for the use of
sprinters and hurdlers. Tiie new oval
is to have twoby-four undersupports
every 17 inches and is to be surfaced
in western spruce, a lumber selected
because of its durability and the ease
witii which spikes penetrate it.
Tiie track will have two special fea r
lures. Tiie surface boards are to be
cut so that the grain is vertical, thus
preventing breakage and slivers. It
is planned to put a vaulting-box, a
pit. and a board at one
end of the straightaway fov the use
of poie-vaulters, high-jumpers, and
broad-junipers.
Until the track is completed and
*et up outdoors, the winter trackmen
will practice in Rec hall in prepara
tion for the indoor meets.
Couch Chick Werner plans to enter
his best performers in the IC-4A
championships in New York City on
March 12. He also hus hopes of tak
ing a four-mile relay team out to the
Illinois Relays. Entry into several
other indoor meets is being consid
ered.
Cap, Gown Orders Due
February graduating seniors must
order their invitations and caps and
gowus by tomorrow night. Orders are
being taken at the Student Uuion of
fice. first floor Old Main!
An informal mid-semester dance,
sponsored by the Student Union, will
be held in the Armory Saturday
night, January 29. Bill Bottorf’s or
chestra will play. Co-chairmen of the
affair are Amy McClelland ’3B and
Russell Gohn *3B.