The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-05-10
Miss Julie Heynemar
Originator Vocational
Training Soldiers
MAKE SPEAKING
TOUR AMERICA
Established In London
Famous California
House
Associated Press

NEW YORK, May 1O-Miss Julie
H"yneman of San Francisco, portrait
painter and writer, arrived here the
ether day on four months leave Of
absence from the British Red Cross,
with a new distinction for an Ameri-
can woman, that of being the origina-
tor of q system OF vocational training
for wounded soldiers by means of
which thousands Of British, Belgian.
French and American fighters, Grip
pied apparently beyond repair, have
been restored to lives of happiness
and usefulness.
Before returning to England, Miss
Heyneman will make a transcontin-
entail tour Of America, speaking be-
fore various woman's clubs. Red Cross
and Belgian war relief organizations
on her work abroad. Her itinerary
at present includes Philadelphia, Chi
cago, Washington, Baltimore, Boston,
San Francisco, Pittsburg, St. Louis
and Denver.
This little American woman. who
landed in England on the day An
twsrp fell to the Germans, found her
sell IN a whirl of war terror and con-
fusion. Belgian civilian refugees, old
end young, penniIes5 and despairine,
and Belgian soldiers, terribly wound
ed We're arriving Ii, L ldon by train
leads. She established in London.
after much difficulty: an institution,
which she named California House,
after her native state, where the di :
abled defiaeTs Of i,anur and Liegc,
and other Belgian strongholds, were
nursed back to health and strength
and taught languages or vocations
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living.
So successful was this adventure in
war philanthropy that the Britis,
Red Cross two years later enlisted
Miss Hayneman's services, took. ~ove,
her institution and established three
similar big homes ina London known
as Kitchener Houses No. l, 2 and g.
The California woman was aided in
her work by other Americans who
sustained the enterprise by voluntary
donations. Everything was supplied
free to the soldiers ard in three years
more than 10000 meals were given
them.
The Belgians desirous of perpetual
ing the work for fellow war sufferers
N their native land, besought Miss
Reyneman to establish a similar re-
construction center there and to this
end she visited Queen Elizabeth at
La Panne and was assured her sym
rathy and support. The Queen of the
Belgians, upon request designated
the Edith Caveil School for Nurses in
Brussels as the Institution likely to-
benefit most by the, expansion sueIr|
as Miss Heyneman proposed, that, OF
establishing at least 25 beds and en-
tailIng an outlay of $1,000 each. One
o: the founders of the school named
for the martyred British nurse was
Nine. Marie Depage, a Belgian wo-
nan, who perished on the Lusitania
According to the plan each bed is tv
he dedicated to the memory of some
fallen American soldier and already
the mothers of two officers have in.
oicated their desire thus to honor the
memory of their heroic dead. After
h"r tour in the United States Miss
Heyneman intends to return to Bel
uin TO put her plan into effect
81 have passed through four and
half years of the nightmare of war;"
said Miss Heyneman. 81 never would
have believed until l got into thi
work that I ever could have done it.
1t ha4been severe but beneficial
experience. Of the 500 men who have
passed through California House, once
practically helpless cripples, 90 per-
cent have been fed and cared for and
made self-supporting. The British
Red Cross, as result of our initia-
tory efforts, IS now similarly re-edu-
eating and training 5000 Wounded
soldiers year, in the Kitchener
Houses and we believe that, ultimate
" the British War Office will put the
work upon permanent basis"
Miss Heyneman said she was a
member of the Executive Committee
of Vocational Training for England of
which Major General Fielding, of the
British army, commander of the Lon
don district, is chairman.