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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 1948
The Editorial Page
Dixonites And Damnigrites
Once upon a time in the land of Plenty, state of Confusion, city of Proteus, lived a man named Joe.
One day a terrible accident occurred. Joe, who worked in a laundry, fell into a vat full of bleach. When he was pulled out, his skin was white, like the belly of a fish.
The land of Plenty was inhabited by two distinct masses of people. One mass, the Dixonites, was intelligent, clean, well-bred, and almost certain of eternal salvation; all of this was so because these people had purple skin with pink polka dots. The other group, the Damnigrites, was eternally doomed to starvation, suffering, and oppression; all of this was so because these people had white skin, like the belly of a fish.
The man named Joe was a Dixonite. He was raised as all good Dixonites to believe that he was superior to all Damnigrites.
Joe Meets Misfortune
Joe went to all his former friends in search of consolation, but they shock their heads and said nothing. They suspected that for all these years Joe had been a fraud. Joe, bewildered and confused, waited for the true color of his skin to return, but it remained white. Doctors were no help; their medicine made him ill. Alone and friendless, he went to live with the Dammigrites. Their homes were shacks and their food was hominy. The lowest of labor was their lot throughout their lives.
Domed To Be Dammigrite
"I'm a Dixonite," he told them. "I am intelligent, clean, well-bred, and almost certain of eternal salvation. Let my skin is white. Fate has indeed been cruel to me."
So Joe ran back to his Dixonite friends and begged that they listen to his story.
Then the Damnigrites shunned him because he believed himself better than they, who only thought themselves human.
"You are a Damnigrite," they said.
"You are eternally doomed to starvation, suffering, and oppression."
"But at heart I am all that any of you are proclaim to be," he protested. "It's only my skin—the color of my skin—that you judge me by!"
"Of course!" they answered. "That is sufficient."
Then they left him, for it was
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Joe Finds The Solution
Sunday morning and they were going to church.
So Joe sat down on the street curbing and thought for a long time. He thought for so long a time that he finally got an idea. He jumped up and ran to a drug store, where he purchased two cans of paint. These he took home, and, within an hour, he once again had purple skin with pink polka dois.
He went outside and his Dixonite friends saw him and eventually welcomed him back. For weeks and months he followed the pursuits of a Dixonite, until one day he met a Dammigrite who had known him during his period of embarrassment. If Hello, I'm called the Dammigrite.
Bibio, Joe, said the DabbingHite.
"I beg your pardon," said Joe, who walked on down the street.—Bill larger.
Editor's note: The following letter concerns a Daily Kansan account of a debate sponsored by Federal Union. The Daily Kansan ered in reporting that Mr. Aliotti is an exchange student. Otherwise the account of the debate was accurate, and as happens in many debates, the participants had to say things they didn't really believe.
Dear Editor Debate Tactics
1. I am not an exchange student. I pay half of my way through college and the rest is furnished by my father.
Dear Editor,
1. I am not against the Marshall Plan; neither are the Italian people On the contrary, they are willing to have American help for their recovery, and they appreciate very much the good will of the American people.
3. For reason of debate tactics I had to bring up some points that were not exactly my personal opinion.
4. My opinion on the Marshall plan is as follows:
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(b) I think the funds should be used in each country in the following manner:
American engineers and economists should be sent into Europe, particularly into a country such as Italy. These engineers and economists should help to invest the American money at the right point and without waste. With the aid of local engineers and labor they would be able to start the Italian recovery within one or two years. When a certain level was reached in each particular basic industry the Americans should pull out of the country and "leave the train rolling, safe and fast, on the rails of prosperity" to the Italian people.
Many giant industrial wheels take incredibly long periods to get up speed and to be stopped. For example, the flywheel on the stabilizing gyroscope of one steamship requires three hours to reach its maximum number of revolutions per second and requires more than 32 minutes to stop.
(a) The Marshall plan is one of the best set-ups devised for the recovery of Europe.
Same can be said of many after dinner speakers.
This plan would have the follow- line advantages:
(a) It would assure the American people and the American government that the money they are investing will be spent for the right purpose and with the maximum efficiency.
(b) By its success it would set an example of American and Italian good will to cooperate and work for peace.
(c) It would show to the world that the American funds are not spent for guns or tanks, but for the recovery of European countries, for the friendly and prosperous development of a peace that would embrace all this tiny globe of ours.
Aldo G. Aliotti
Engineering Senior from Rome, Italy.
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