The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-05-07
Livestock Board Believe Ticks
Will Be Eradicated by Time
Court Makes Decision.
STORRS MAKES STATEMENT
Thinks 1t Would Cause County
Great Loss to Halt Dipping
Now That Goal Is Near

After learning that Judge Z. -
Jones Of the criminal court OF record
| had held the compulsory dipping law
unconstitutional. in the ParsoE case
| before him, r. w. Storrs, Of DsFtnfak
Springs, member Of the Sti L-..e
Stock Sanitary Board, in charge Of the
work or tick eradication for the board.
was asked over the long dist lrg l-Ie-
phone what effect the decisi VI .a,l5s
| nave on the present work in & .eil-s
ty. Mr.. Storrs dictated the iioNlng
statement:
Of course we were surpris0d AMI
naturally disappointed at the vir,v az
the case taken by Judge Jont but IS
advised by our attorneys, il as 15 ef-
feet on any case except tina; irectlv
before the court; the habeas g1plss
case OF Mr.. Parsons. who is iischarg-
ed. An appeal has been takcr &, the
supreme court, which we CT trfiGenily
believe will sustain the law IN this
case as it did in the Bailey dse last
year.
Il have not seen the op u
Judge Jones, so do not knlN upon
what point he declared the !aly unlna-
stitutional, but presume il ws p
some technical question raise by 0r.
Parsons attorneys.
There is too much at stake IN IS
Gambia county alone to say 10, ,liag
Of the rest of the state TO e'u the
work OF the board until the court OF
last resort sustaines Judge Jones views
which neither we nor our attorneys
think will be the case. With only 10
head of ticky cattle found out OF more
than 10000 dipped in April-less than
one in a thousand, TO let up on the
work so long as there is a chance OF
completing it, would be little short OF
misfeasance in office on the part Of
the board. II the supreme court takes
the usual time in passing upon. or
even as long as it did in The Bailey
-sH. igt cr8e alton n Es"ambia
1ta ssrH b. i.TartiCa}tS .ceu pietsd
usf-e ttaf tipa SHOULD tie suWsg0e
rstlrt sTsLssu IudCC t1Bcs 1 sfa Id.
vice. q. Eetlld bs
-t5r aaw !l- aaiad o. Je 4et ~
J1,. o..1 .l tlfss gssr tse-Elaf- b0acG N
health law under which Oade ami
Broward counties were cleared Of ticks.
would be revived, and ! believe that
the board OF health. rather than see
Escambia county reinfested with ticks
would take charge Of the work, and
that law, let me say. is much more
IEhSIiC SDllit ltSBtIlS Ahldi Niit Au"
creating the State Live Stock Sanitary
BOARD.
ITO the state as a whole. the effect
II Judge Jones decision. would be un-
ier present conditions little short OF
1t would not only stop the
work of tick eradication. which is ONLY
me phase Of The work OF the board.
t would stop the distribution OF hog
holera serum at cost to the farmers
# the state under the law passed by
he last legislature 1t would also stop
III hog cholera control work by the
tate, which is saving The farmers in
hat matter many times the whole cost
4 live stock sanitation. IL would stop
he work of tuberculosis in cattle,
nder which it has been made pOssi-
lie for the people Of the cities OF the
tate depending on dairies 10 get milk
nd know that it is not from cows SUI
ering from that disease which is
by the milk to people
nd particularly children.
I'VE will keep right on with our
,ork unless and until the courts say
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