Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-09-05
Phraseology Committee of Constitutional Conven-
 tion Met Wednesday.
FOUR BANKS STARTED
 IN STATE IN WEEK
Governor Brough Will De- liver Address at Old Vet
 erana Reunion at Tulsa.

Little Rock, Sept. All Arkan- sas has united on the campaign for the Girls Industrial School and Wo- mans Reformatory and county after county has notified A. B. Poe, the state chairman, that their quotas have been reached Talbot Field, man ager of the campaign in Hempstead county stated in Little Rock Tues day that his county had by that time gone over the top.
 In Little Rock the women are large ly conducting the campaign, and on Tuesday, the first day, they raised m the nelgnbcrhood 0f SI0,0OO. Pulaski 900 and the women have not yet county is expected to contribute $z5,- started m to working good. As all the money raised will be used in con- struction work, if the amount asked for is exceeded, it will mean more pro- tentious institutions.
 COMMITTEE IN SESSION.
 The Phraseology Committee of the Constitutional Convention, of which Prof. J. H. Reynolds, of Hendrix Col lege, Conway, is chairman is in ses-, sion here today to pass upon the final text of the proposed document. 1t has all been engrossed and turned over to the Committee, and it will not take long to complete the work. A com plete copy of the Constitution is then to be provided for each member of the Convention, which is to reconvene on Sept. Is.
 NEW BANKS ORGANIZED.
 During the last few weeks, four new national banks have chartered in the state, at Mansfield, Benton, Des Arc, and Dardanelle. The Bank of Mansfield has been nationalized. There have been a number of consultations, four state banks at Marianna having merged into two.
 BKOUGH TO MAKE ADDRESS.
 The theme of Gov. Brough's ad- dress before the Sens of Confederate Veterans at Tulsa, Okla, on the ev- ening of Sept. A, will be "The Off, cial Presentation of the Daughters of the Confectionery"
 Gov. Williams of Oklahoma, Gov. Gunter of Colorado, Gov. Gardner of Missouri, and Gov. Brough of Arkan- sas, and Hon. Pat Harrison, Senator elect from Mississippi, will deliver ad- dresses on the evening program of Sept. "A.
 1t is interesting to ncte that Gov. Gunter is native of Arkansas, being the son of Col. Tom Gunter, deceased, who lived at Sloan Springs, and was member of Congress years ago.
 APPOINTED ON COMMISSION.
 City Attorney John F. Clifford, of Little Rock, has been appointed by the Governor, as a member of the Arkansas Military Welfare Commis- sion. MT. Clifford has been attending the meetings of the Commission regu- larly in his official capacity and his name was presented by the other members. A. B. Poe of this city rep resents the War Department as chair man of the Commission.
 ISSUES FULL PARDON.
 The Governor has granted a full pardon to Fred Wilkerson of Fair Oaks, Cross county, who was convict ed in the Green circuit ourt in May, 1917, of lareny and receiving stolen property and sentenced to six years in the penitentiary.
 The pardon was recommended prac- tically by all the county officials of Greene ounty, where the crime was committed, and also by w. J. MDon- aid, owner of the stolen property. He has served one year and four months of his term,. and is now suffering from tuberculosis.
 CALL FOR SPECIAL MEN.
 Arkansas has been called upon to furnish APT men, to report to the con- manding officer of Tulane University, La., Sept. 19, for instruction as auto mechanics and radio operators. Only white men physically quail fled for general military service are to be inducted under the cal. Volun- tary enlistments will be received un- til tomorrow, Sept. 5, and if there are not eonugh on Sept. 6, the Local Board is directed to select in sequence of order numbers sufficient num- Der of men for the service. The men must have at least a grammar school education, and have some aptitude for mechanical work.
 Men selected for this service will reeive a course of training at Govern. ment expense fitting them for service in army positions, both at the front and behind the lines. It will be in- struction that will be of great value | in working themselves forward ir military or civilian life.