The Cordova daily times., 1919-06-10
WOMAN WRITER OF AMERICA
 INNEW ROLE

NEW YORK, June 10 (by Asso- ciated Press) Miss Julie Heyneman of San Francisco, portrait painter and writer, arrived here the other day on four months leave of absence from the British Red Cross, with a new dis tinction for an American woman, that of being the originator of system of vocational training for wounded soldiers by means of which thousands of British, Belgian, French and Amer ican fighters, crippled apparently be- yond repair, have been restored to lives of happiness and usefulness.
 Before returning to England, Miss Heyneman will make a transcontin- ental tour of America, speaking before various women'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, Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Denver.
 This little American woman, who landed in England on the day Antwerp fell to the Germans, found herself in a whirl of war terror and confusion Belgian civilian refugees, old and young, penniless and despairing, and Belgian soldiers, terribly wounded, were arriving in London by trainloads. She established in London, after much difficulty, an institution which she named California House." after her native state, where the disabled de- lenders of Namur and Liege and other Belgian strongholds, were nursed back to health and strength and taught Ian guages or vacations that fitted them to earn their own living.
 So successful was this adventure in war philanthropy that the British Red Cross two years later enlisted Miss |Heyneman's services, took over her institution and established three sim liar big homes in London known as Kitchener Houses" No. 1, 2 and 8. The California woman was aided in her work by other Americans who sus- tained the enterprise by voluntary do- nations. Everything was supplied free to the soldiers and in three years more than 6O,OOO meals were given them.
 The grateful Belgians, desirous of Fperpetuating the work for fellow war sufferers in their native land, be- sought Miss Heyneman to establish a similar reconstruction centre there and to this end she visited Queen Eli zabeth at La Panne and was assured her sympathy and support. The queen of the Belgians, upon request, desig- mated the Edith Cavell School for Nurses in Brussels as the institution likely to benefit most by the expan- sion such as Miss Heyneman pro- posed, that of establishing at least 25 beds and entailing an outlay of $5,000 each. One of the founders of the school named for the martyred British nurse was Mms. Marie Depage, Bel gian woman, who perished on the Lusi- tania. According to the plan each bed is to be dedicated to the memory of some fallen American soldier and al- ready the mothers of two officers have indicated their desire thus to honor the memory of their heroic dead. After her tour in the United States Miss Heyneman intends to return to Bel gium to put her plan into effect.
 q have passed through four and a half years of the nightmare of war" said Miss Heyneman. q never would have believed until I got into this work that ever could have done it. It has been a severe but beneficial ex- perience. Of the 600 men who have passed through the California House, once practically helpless cripples, 90 per cent have been fed and cared for and made self-supporting. The British Red Cross, as the result of our iniatory efforts, is now similarly re-educating and training 6,000 wounded soldiers a year, in the Kitchener Houses and we
 believe that, ultimately the British
 war office will put the work upon a
 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.