Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-01
MORE SLEIGHTON FARMS
ARE TO BE ESTABLISHED
Mrs. Martha p. Falconer Called
to Neso York to Aid in Work
Throughout Country
Superintendent Of School for
Girls Viii Enlist ClubWonen
in Fight

MORE sleighton Farms are needed
AA throughout the country, and the
American Social Hygiene Association Of
New York has called upon Mrs. Martha
p. Falconer, superintendent Of the
Farm School for Girls, to help in es-
tablishing them.
For more than twelve years Mrs.
Falconer has been in charge of the
school for girls and has instituted q
number Of improvements that have
helped to establish a national reputation
for the school and its work for women.
Probably within month Mrs. Fal-
coner will leave for New York to take
up her duties as head of the department
of delinquent girls and women, and at
once she will start investigating condi-
tions and doing advisory work with
state and municipal officials in the
South and Southwest.
Believes it "a Woman's Job"
"I believe in women" says Mrs.
Falconer, ''and this is a woman's Job.
''Schools like Sleighton Farms are q
new thing in the South and Southwest
and are greatly needed. 1t will be part
of my new duties to do advisory work
with municipal and state officials and
stimulate interest with the club women
in the fight. a..
There is need everywhere for the
better care of delinquent girls and
women and the Standardization Of re
Lformatories and houses of detention.
"Sleighton Farms was the first re :
form school to use corored officers and
colored teachers for the colored people.
About one fourth of our people are
colored and the plan has worked out
with wonderful success. That sort of
thing is unknown in the south and ii
is one of the things which I shall have
to show them. When they say to me,
1T won't work, I shall tell them To
go to Sleighton Farms and see it work
ing.
Girls at Work on Farm
Another thing that we have beer
doing is putting the girls to work OF
the farm. Agriculture and raising Of
chickens and other sorts of farm work
l believe in for the rehabilitation work
"Student government has also beer
introduced. have my college gir
assistants to thank for that
$50 shall just be trying to estab
lish more Sleighton Farms where they
are needed and getting the club women
everywhere, interested. The clui
women can be a great power in secur-
ing legislation.
''The work which shall do will alsc
be preventive. We are not trying t.
establish schools and neglect the cause
The government is doing great dea
for the preventive work, also. Thi
problem is not only medical one but II
matter Of education and law enforce
ment as well"
Six Hundred Women on Farm
Mrs. Falconer started her work her
when the Glen Minis scnool was located
at Twenty second and South Colleg
avenue and there were 125 girls in tn
institution. About twelve years ag'
Sleighton Farms was established AM
women throughout the state had thei
attention brought to the work whicl
was being done. Courts became NOR
willing to send delinquent cases to tn
farm. There are now 600 women ol
the farm.
, In 1918, Mrs. Falconer was calle'
by the government to aid the commls
sion of training camp activities In max