Show MRS COHEN RETAINED ON liBRARY BOARD IN FACE Of lONG fiGHT Commissions Com Grudge Against Her Not Sufficient to 10 Prevent Prevent Prevent Pre Pre- Pre Pre- vent Reappointment Efforts on the tho part of or the commissioner commis commis- abner O of parl parks s to eliminate Mrs Irs leti M. M 1 Coh Cohan l from the ctt city library board hoard and appoint Miss Kat Kate Williams of or the playgrounds rounds association In her place were defeated In the tho commission meeting meeting- yesterday morning oJ Tho The paik palk commissioner submitted a lI list listS t reappointing all aU old members ex excepting excepting excepting ex- ex Mrs Cohen The commissioner of streets submitted an amendment substituting the lie name of Mrs Irs Cohen in place of that of or Miss I s Williams On the ballot there were four fOUl votes in fa favor tavor ta- ta vor 01 of the tile amendment nt hat that o of the park lark commissioner against t It Those appointed are arc Mrs Irs C. C W. W Boyd lloy Mrs Airs Ir Elizabeth M. M COllen Coen and George e F F. Goodwin to 10 servo until June 30 1915 Herman Hcrman Bamberger Mrs S. S H. H Clawson Cawson and V. W F. F Colton CoHon to servo until June 30 30 1916 All appointments take effect next Monday The Thc appointments made yesterday should have havo been made Just a year a ago o. o as the terms of all aU members reappointed reappointed reap reap- pointed expired ed June 30 30 1912 Because of or a n controversy contro among board member members mem mom hers bers over O appointments none were made last year Trouble over the appointments finds its origin in th the tho activities of the tho Civic Purity J league ague just prior to and at the election which placed the present commissioners com corn missioners In office e. e Mrs Cohen was president of the purity lea league uc and was Instrumental in preparing a list of or questions which elc submitted to each commissioner to election and which he was compelled to answer be before no- no fore rore receiving In Indorsement and support of ot the women's organization Among this list of Qu questions was as one requiring the commissioners to state in Ill writing If Ir the they would answer at all all whether the they tileY would voluntarily submit to a recall I If it their conduct of or affairs was nas not satisfactory to tie the people The They were cro also forced by these question questions ques ques- tion to put themselves ts on record as to their policy toward tho the stockade and the social asocial evil generally Mrs Irs Coh Cohen Cohan n was looked upon as th theauthor the theauthor 1 author thor 0 of these questions and a year ago when hen th the time came for nr library boar boaM boarI appointments the man maUer I o of eliminating Mrs l Cohen from tho the board was taken up Practically all members rs or of hc he board then or fa favored tl replacing her but each had a candidate with tho the result that the they d coald not agree |