YP's, Please

Advocates of extreme ideas, however unpopular, have not been denied a hearing at this University. But this is precisely why the nine-hundred-odd persons who filled New Lecture Hall yesterday afternoon to hear Paul Robeson were puzzled when Robeson did not appear. Perhaps they had not all come to hear and weigh carefully the extreme views Mr. Robeson would doubtless have expressed. But they were there none the less, and the Young Progressives must be chided gently for failing to produce their man. Since they had similar ill-luck with William E. Du Bois on Monday night, even their own followers must be getting disappointed. We say, give us your dissenter to listen to or to heckle, but leave us not to sit staring at a vacant blackboard for two hours.