The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-05-18
BY GERTRUDE STEVENSON.

With the final draft OF a world
peace practically ready to place be-
fore an American Congress, at least
one woman. in the country believes
that the. time has come for the wom-
en- of the world TO lift their voices
and demand that, another point be
added to the League OF Nations COW
enant. that will stabilize and make
permanent the whoIe-the point Of
the universal brotherhood OF man.
She is Nine Katherine Tingley. di-
rector of. the Theosophists of 'the
world. and just arrived in Washing
ton with. twelve students from her
college at Point Iona. Cal.
mot until you have written broth
erly love in flaming letters all over
the peace treaty and the League Of
Nations will we have a peace that
will endure as long as il has taken
to frame it, Nine TihEley declared
today in her suite at the willard.
CAUTIOUSLY enough ills the women
now, as it always has been the WON
en-, why by their spirit OF devotion
and leadership must set the example
being willing seemingly to step
back and relinquish many OF the
things that they have gained in order
OF home and family life which we
seem TO have so completely lost dur
ing the. war.
"AaImIessnesr Everywhere."
Movement is not necessarily prog
ress. and American women have been
working in the last two years with
out necessarily making much prog
ress. They rose to the emergency
Of wartime Neutrality-suspicious.
they did was urgent and essential
but meantime the most precious
things in the world were being neg
Iected. ..... ....
Everywhere about me | see a
great unrest great almlessness a
great purposeIessness.. as though the
war and the things that came OF il,
toppled over. 81 our old standards.
broke our faith and our belief in
everything that had been and. left
nothing in its place.
Family life seems completely dis
rupted-alI the simple sweet things
OF life seem 10 be swamped in a
craze for excitement and new stiIpu-
Iations. The women Of the world
must check this tendency. must
evolve new standards to take the
places Of the old. new hopes to re-
place the embittercd cynicism and
indiffereFUe-- Rf-s,Lcdayr- aspira-
tions to reVitalige an existence that
seems to 9TN out 10 AT every hand:
What is fhR puFpeSe Of life,--~hat
are We here for-what is everything
all sbouc?i ~ = -. 3, -
And when Katherine -TinSiey tells
women that il is in the home circle
and the education of a new genera
ton that women must needs. as A
result OF the war. seek their service
10 the world. no one can accuse her
or seeking to stop wonen's progress.
No woman ever worked harder for
the recognition OF women and no
woman ever more graphically demon
strated what a crusader and leader
a woman can be.
Nine. TinEIey =" Years Old.
The calendar says Katherine Ting
ley is seyenty-tWo years old, but the
-alendar must. be hopelessly mixed
UP. for no woman could have such
vital force, such power. such leader
ship at three score. and twelve.
And yet no woman could have done
all that Katherine Tingley has &C
in less than that time.
Born in New England, the daugh-
ter OF a Union officer. Katherine Ting
ley rose TO the leadership of the the
of the world, founded a col
Iege famous on two continents, and
built up at Point Iona. Cal, a colony
Of followers probably unequaled by
any other society in the world.
From the time when she knew she
could never be content silently to
a stsbs sSud-onIS nifs..the gnfortunatcs
1T the World and <0rgs rr7"'i N" En"r