Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-05-14
AME R|CAN GIRL
ORIGINATES NEW
TRAINING system
Thousands of Allied Wounded
Given New Trades in ''CaIi-
fornia House," Founded by
Miss Julie HaynernaE

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New York, May l3.--Miss Julie
Hyncman of San Francisco, portrait
painter and writer, arrived here the
other day on a four months leave of
absence from the British Red Cross
with a new distinction for an American
woman, that of being the originator
Of a system of vocational training for
wounded soldiers by means of which
thousands of British, Belgian, French
and American fighters, crippled APP
parently beyond repair, have been re-
stored to lives of happiness and use
fitness.
Before returning to England, Hey
neman mili make transContinental
tour of America, speaking before va
lious women's clubs, Red Cross and
Belgian war relief organizations on
her work abroad. Her itinerary at
present includes Philadelphia Chica-
go, Washington, Baltimore, Boston,
San Francisco, Pittsburgh, st, Louis
and Denver.
Pounds California House.
This little American woman, who
landed in England. on the day Ant
werp fell to the Germans, found her
self in a whirl of war terror and con-
fusion Belgian civilian refugees ole
and young, ponniless and dcspairing,
and Belgian soldiers, terribly wounded,
We're 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 war
riors of Namur and Liege and other
Belgian strongholds, were nursed back
to health and strength and taught
languages or Vocations 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. I, 2, and 3,
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 and in three years
more than $1,000 meals We're given
them
Queen Elizabeth Helped.
The grateful Belgians. DESTROYS of
perpCtuating the work for fellow war
sufferers in their native fand, besouEht
Miss Hcyneman to establish similar
reconstruction center there and to this
end she visited Queen Elizabet at La
Panne and was assured her hearty
sympathy and support. The Queen of
the Belgians, upon request, designated
the Edith Cavell School for Nurses in
Brussels as the institution likely to
benefit most by the expansion such as
Miss Heyneman proposed, that of es-
tablishing at least twenty-five beds
and entai'ing an outlay of $4,000 each.
one of the founders of the school
named for the martyred British nurse
was Nine Marie Depage, Belgian
woman, who persisted on the Lusitan-
ia, According to the plan each bed is
to he dedicated to the memory of some
fallen American soldier and already
the mothers of two officers have indi-
Gated their desire to honor the men,
Dry OF their heroic dead. After her
tour in the United States Miss Heyne-
man intends to return to Belgium to
put her plan into effect.
Il have passed through four and a
half years of the nightmare of war,
said Miss Heyneman. Il never would
have believed until | got into this
work that | ever could have done it.
1t has been a severe but beneficial eX-
perience. OF the thousands of men
who have passed through the Callfor-
MIA house, once practically helpless
eripplcs, 90 per cent have been fed
and cared for and made self-support-
ing. The British Red Cross, as the re-
suit Of our initiatory efforts, is now
similarly re-cducating and training
5000 wounded soldiers a year, in the
Kitchener houses and we believe that,
ultimately the British war office will
put the work upon permanent ba-
sis"
Miss Heyneman said she was a
member of the executive committee of
vocational training for England of
which Major General Fielding of the
Blish army, commander of the London
district is chairman.