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...result of all this piffle is that more and more teachers are swallowing the idea that subject matter is no longer important. They have distorted Dewey's "interest psychology" into an excuse for dumping almost anything intellectual, have taken the gobbledygook of Columbia's William Heard Kilpatrick as gospel. "As I look out on life," said Kilpatrick, "I find a lot of people who don't use arithmetic; and I don't think that life would be any richer for them if they used it." Echoed the principal of a Champaign (Ill.) junior high school...
Editorial Writer Jack Kilpatrick of the Richmond (Va.) News Leader also began an investigation. Kilpatrick, a hard-dig ging reporter (who has since succeeded Historian Douglas Southall Freeman as editor of the News Leader - TIME, July 1 6, 1951), first got interested in the case as a reporter when Rogers made an un successful appeal to a higher court. Con vinced of his innocence, Kilpatrick ran a two-column editorial called "The Curious Case of Silas Rogers." Wrote he: "The conviction grows, and grows [that] Silas Rogers is imprisoned for life - for a crime he never committed." "Kilpo" Kilpatrick quizzed...
...soldiers testified to sharing cigarettes with Rogers in the stolen car; Kilpatrick proved that Rogers did not smoke. An other piece of key evidence was that Rog ers drove the stolen car; Kilpatrick proved that Rogers had never learned to drive...
...evidence poured in. Newsman Kilpatrick peppered Virginia's Governor John S. Battle with some 50 letters - so many that, when he had occasion to write the governor on other matters, he wo'tild preface his letters with the phrase, "Not about Silas Rogers." Kilpatrick wrote a series of cold, factual editorials on the case, deliberately avoided sensationalism for fear that Red-front groups would leap into the fray for propaganda purposes...
...second thought, said he, Rogers' coat was brown, whereas the one found in the car was blue. Last week, just two days before Christmas, Governor Battle signed a pardon, and Silas Rogers, after nine years behind bars, stepped from the Virginia State Penitentiary a free man. Wrote Editor Kilpatrick: "It is, for this newspaper, the end of a long trail-a trail at once heart-warming and heart-breaking." Silas Rogers, standing in a blue suit which he had made himself in the prison tailor shop for the occasion, looked up at a dull winter sky and said...