Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-12-28
Secretary of State Hodges Appoints Judge Who Will
 Meet at Capital.
CONTEST DEVELOPS
Pine Bluii ahaptere, D. \. R.. Inau. gurated MOyement-State Fedora.
 ton May "BOlt'' Convention.

Little Rock, Dec. 27.-Composed of fifteen members, all acknowledged of art. the committee to select the State flag from the designs received from various parts of the state and former Arkansans out of the state by Secre- tary of State Earle w. Hodges, was appointed this morning by that off cial, and will meet in this city Jan uary ?, 1913 This netting will be held at the Hotel Marion and the selection made from the designs le ceived hy MT. Hodges will be submit- ted to the next General Assembly for adoption as the official state flag.
 The committee, each member of which is very prominent in Arkansas affairs, and is a competent judge of art, is as follows:
 Mai. Clifton R. Breckinridge of Fort Smith.
 Prof. J. H. Reynolds, president of he University of Arkansas. Mrs. Joe T. Robinson of Little Rock
 Mrs. Geo w. Donaghey of Little Rock.
 j.. N. Heiskell, editor of the Arkan- .as Gazette.
 Mrs. Joe Frauenthal president of he Arkansas Federation of Women's Clubs, Conway.
 Hon. Geo. B. Rose, of Little Rock Mrs. Julia McAlmont Noel. State regent of Arkansas D. A. R., Pine Bluff.
 Mrs Richard B Willis, president of i he Arkansas Division U. D. C., Fay etteville.
 Hon. Geo. B. Cox, state superin-
 endent of public instruction.
 Dallas T. Herndon, secretary of the l Arkansas History Commission. i Judge Jacob Trieber, of Little Rock. s@A &&H Elmer E. Clarke, publisher of The Arkansas Democrat.
 Col. V. Y. Cook, of Batesville.
 Prof. Junius Jordan of Pine Bluff
 former superintendent of public in-
 struction
 Movement Popular.
 The movement for the adoption of
 he state flag was started by the Pine
 Bluff Chapter, D. A. R., several
 months ago. and Secretary of State
 Earle w. Hodges was asked to take l :harge of the movement. This off
 ,ial then sent out requests for de
 signs for the flag, and as result O.
 his efforts, over thirty designs have
 been sent in. These come from vari
 ous points in the state, from New York, Oregon and Illinois. However all the out-of of-state designs were sen
 in by former residents of Arkansas l Many of these designs are really beau !! tiful, and all of them will be turned
 over to the committee on January 7.
 The Arkanas Federation of Wom en's Club have adopted a design Whlcl
 will be submitted to the next legls
 lature by these ladies as an opponen : to the design to be selected by thu committee. Secretary of State Hodge
 stated this morning that this design
 although it has not been sent into m office with the others, could be sub mitted to the committee if the ladle of the federation saw fit to do SC and that it was his one desire Una
 everybody Le treated right. lie sal that several of the members of tn federation were apparently Of th
 opinion that he was endeavoring t
 manage the selection of the state flag put such was not the case, and that
 vas merely doing what the people o the state had requested him to do l
 is not known whether or not the de sign selected by the federation will b . submitted to the committee appolnte . by Mir. Hodges or to the general as
 semhly. It is very probable that tn
 question of the selection of stat
 flag will be hard-fought one at tn
 next session of the general assembl, l