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Texastrends Symposium
Dr. ‘Red’ Duke
Worst problems facing Americans are preventable ok
By Dawn Butz
Staff Writer
Amid claps and whoops, Dr.
James “Red” Duke y Class of’50, was
introduced to a crowded Texas
trends Symposium audience Friday
as a Texan who has made great con
tributions to the Lone Star state.
Duke, who currently serves as
professor of surgery at the Univer
sity of Texas Medical School in
Houston, is also special assistant to
the president at the University of
Texas Health Science Center in
Houston, and professor and medical
director of the Emergency Medical
, Services Program at the School of
Allied Health Sciences. He also is
featured on many news and medical
television programs.
The prominent doctor and for
mer A&M yell leader began with a
short review of his life — the part
that his introduction had left out —
telling of his seminary school experi
ence following his graduation from
A&M.
“Now you may ask why I went to
seminary, and I cain’t exactly tell ya
for sure,” Duke said in his distinctive
Texas drawl. “But I’ve come to the
conclusion that the Lord sent me
there to clean me up a bit before I
went to medical school.”
As he introduced his 1950 fellow
graduate, the “honorable Mr. Bill
Clayton,” former speaker of the
Texas House of Representatives,
who was in the audience, Duke re
marked on his years at A&M.
“I guess I learned the word hon
orable in seminary because it sure
doesn’t apply to what we were doin’
here,” Duke said. “Bill and I are of
that age that we believed when they
admitted women to this University
that the place was just gonna go to
hell in a handbasket, and again we
couldn’t have been more wrong.
These females today are somethin’
else.”
Duke hit on many subjects during
his presentation, but the predomi
nant theme was that the top prob
lems in America are those that are
the most preventable, the ones that
result because individuals in society
shirk their responsibilities.
“Half of those people irfT, :
intoxicated with somefe; j \ Even
i Malt
. cording to the National' quarter
on Alcoholism, the No.
problem is drug abuse, par,;]
alcohol.
“Note that all of thislossi
something that is totally pro t
(injury and alcohol).”
Duke also emphasized tit J
lern of smoking.
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Dr. James “Red’ Duke
“Who is responsible (for these
problems)?” Duke asked. “Well, I
think it’s plain. We all are. We are all
responsible for our own actions, our
lives and those about us, but mainly
for ourselves.”
Duke listed - alcohol, injury and
smoking as America’s major health
problems.
He said in 1983 it was estimated
that the cost of injury to this nation
was $83 billion, and that in the same
year in Texas alone, the loss of po
tential life due to injury was about
353,000.
Duke said this was more than the
potential life lost from cancer, heat t
disease and infection combined.
"For each injury there are two
permanent disaoiliiies,” Duke said.
“That costs society a bunch. More
than 50,000 people die each year on
highways, and moving vehicular in
jury is the No. 1 cause of death in all
the injuries.
in males and 256 percenimltl j al( ‘ s
“The surgeon generaliL>L m d R ‘
this issue of smoking is (iT U aig ^t
problem in our society feTc ^ t ^° l
the one that is the most pit*, Murrav
hie,” Duke said. ^ ^
Duke also spoke out onii)L| <,ut ^ u ,’ c
of seat belt usage. ing
“It’s pretty good data
that about 50 percent ollljy 111 ck I
would be avoided if peopltts* a
seat hells,'' he said. passing
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Duke said he bdievesthtT ,n,(l
the place to look to when c;u CCI ^
these problems aside on
He said the vounghavttk^™ ^ s a
to br eak certain patternsol
that will afford the
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Lynn Ashby
'Texas Special Session put a Band-Aid on state finane®
spective.
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By Rodney Rather
Staff Writer
A range of Texas topics as vast as
the Lone Star prairie was given an
insightful, witty look Friday by
Houston Post editor and columnist
Lynn Ashby.
Ashby, one of three prominent
Texans who spoke Friday at the
Texastrends Symposium at Texas
A&M, addressed Texas’ present eco
nomic state and the probable future
course of Texas and gave a character
sketch of Texans and what makes
them unique.
The other two speakers at the
symposium were Dr. James “Red”
Duke and entrepreneur Clayton
Williams.
The Texas economy isn’t as rosy
as it has been in recent years, Ashby
said, but the state hasn’t seen the last
of its glory days, either.
“Well, we’ve got some good news
— that we used to be in good shape,”
he said. “The bad news is that that’s
old news.
“But we still have a good thing
going here, and most of the work!
would give anything for our prob
lems — of how to get three cars in a
two-car garage.”
Ashby also said many of Texas’ at
titudes toward government have
changed because of the rush of peo
ple from northern states in the
1970s.
That migration has subsided, but
it hasn’t stopped, he said.
The trickle of newcomers contin-
nt
again in January.
Another problem with Texans
they don't tolerate ideas diiicn
from their own, he said.
“We are violent, given more to
shooting than to shouting," he said.
“And many of us care more for
money than for minds, or for things
we can own, than for thoughts we
can think.”
Ashby used Texas’ outlook on the
arts as an example of the state's in
ability to digest various viewpoints.
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ues, and these modern settlers bring
with them demands for city, county
and state services and are willing to
pay higher taxes for them, he said.
“That is not the way we usually do
things in Texas,” he said. “We have
traditionally been low tax and low
spend.
“Texas was created by people to
get away from government — and
the last thing they wanted to do was
start another one.”
For many years, the Texas Legis
lature often didn’t attract the best or
the most righteous statesmen, Ashby
said, but that problem has gotten
much better.
He also said that the Legislature
put a Band-Aid on slate finances in
its recent special session and will face
a $1 billion problem when it gathers
hypocritical
The
don’t care n
as," he said.
There is
talent in Texas, Ashby s
doesn’t stay, because artis
siders to Texans.
“In a way, Texas is
about the arts,” he said.
“We will pay for them; we will tell
each other how important they are
to a well-rounded education and
fruitful society.
“But when push comes 10 shove,
the arts lose out.”
Although Texas' attitude toward
the arts never will change com
pletely, there has been some im
provement, Ashby said.
Attendance at museums and or
chestra perfoi mances is growing, he
said, and Houston is one of only
four U.S. cities with a full-time pro
fessional orchestra, ballet, theater
and opera.
Ashby then shifted bis topic to the
future of Texas.
Texas will continue to grow, he
said, but evervone will
they do now, live inbi
Dallas, Austin and Hous
Meanwhile, he said,'
1 ounties are becomingd
By 1993, the seven-
around Houston iscxpt
4.6 million people.hes
at least twice itscurrenii
"Texas cities-will gro
turn will make a lot oft
tities,” he said. “Place
and Houston will get 10
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As a result, anyplace
100 miles of metropoliu.» ! -
become bedroom comic.* 1
said.
Universities and coMF
also will continue to pi 1
said, but that's notallgiwiK
Some universities arcrtF
and will require a vasiar
money to improve.
Among 37 publicand!:®-
dent I exas collegesanddRi
there are eight law (cWf
medical schools, 16scki
neering, 64 separate
grams and over 20 join
partments, he said
Texas isn't capable oidBl
such a large number dip’
pi ograms much longer,kC,
“What we're going to if “-f'
is if you want to bei*^
you'll come to Texas All wj
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