PUBLISHED FORTNIGHTLY AT WILTON, CONNECTICUT . BY THE WILTON ASSOCIATION "To Promote the Best Interests of Wilton" Editor: G . Evans Hubbard P . 0 . Box 374, Wilton, Conn . Subscription Si per year CORRESPONDENCE Vol . I, TOWN PLANNING Editor . Wilton Bulletin: March 2, 1937 . I was very much interested in your article in the Bulletin concerning the question of a high school for Wilton . Your article appealed to me as good planning for the future, as I believe that all of this section of the country is in for a rapid growth with - in the next five years . In order to help this growth and to make our town a self - contained unit . it of course must be kept an attractive place in which to live . and one of the things which it seems to me the  citizens of the town might consider is a Town Planning Board . I under - stand that the suggestion wt, made a few years ago . Perhaps it was not clearly understood as to what town planning meant . It seems to me that the appearance of the town as one travels through the roads of Wilton is im - portant . I have particularly in mind the very dis - agreeable appearance that is given by dumps near the public highway . etc . The improvement of the appearance of the town, so as to help the growth of the town, is of direct benefit of course to all its citizens . Perhaps it would be well for the Selectmen to ascertain the present sentiment  of the voters towards a planning committee and appoint such a committee to draw up rules and regulations for action at the town meeting later on this year . Sincerely yours, Gayer G . Dominick . HIGH SCHOOL I o Editor . Wilton Bulletin: March 2, 1937 . In the issue for March 1st, four disadvantages of the present system of sending Wilton children to high schools of Danbury, New Canaan . Ridgefield and Westport are mentioned: ( I . ) The control of these high schools is in the hands of outside boards of education who neces - sarily fit the curriculum itt heir own children rather than to the needs of Wilton students . It is not evident how there can possibly be any difference between the needs of Wilton students and the needs of high school children in the surround - ing towns . Good teachers are good teachers whether they teach in Wilton or in Westport . (2 . ) Our students la, k the social and recreational advantages which a high school should offer . They are unable to remain after school hours or to return in the evening for the dramatic, musical and athletic events which are so important a part of modern education It is not immediately apparent why the Wilton students  are :mat, remain after ,schoolf,r .. these N o . 6 MARCH 15, 19   3  7 parent why, if they cannot participate in these events at high school . they cannot be organized in the Central School in Wilton, (3 . ) We can never be certain how long a student can remain in an outside school because, in case of congestion . it is our pupils who must be moved . Surely . it is time enough to cross that bridge when it occurs . We shall undoubtedly be able to get a year Or two warning of such an impending event, and it is possible at that time that other arrange - ments might be made which would not involve building a new high school in Wilton . (4 . ) Most important is the fact that outside edu - cation does not make good Wiltonians . Our young people who finish their education at West - port almost inevitably will make their friends there, they go to parties in Westport . do most of their shopping there . and fed like Westport . ,! In fact . ma, parents who drive to Westport to take their children to social affairs in connection with their schools . get into the habit of doing their shopping there also . The same is also true of those who go to New Canaan . Danbury or Ridgefield . It is submitted that this objection is a very great advantage . If one is to arrange that all children in Wilton are to   stay in W i lt on and  go anywhere else, surely tills 110 advantage . If they go to West - port and other towns, and make friends there . and set, something of the great world, and come into con . t with other children who have not got pre - cisely their point of view . this is the very essence of education . Furthermore . neither children nor their parents should be regarded as a kind of annual crop grown in Wilton for the advantage of shop - keepers . When schools are arranged so that ^such collateral matters determine what is taught and where it is taught . _then education is being used for an ulterior purpose which cannot possibly rebound to the benefit of the children . Respectfully  yours, George W . Martin . I he Wilton Bulletin: March 5 . 1937 . I   note the statement as to cost of the I High ^School, set forth in v  issue of March 1st . has a ^q ualifying statement to the effect that they are rough ^figures -- “Very Rough" would have been mote ^{a ppropriate} . would he Interesting to have a description ^of this I High cool that can be provided for SI ^50,000 to take care of four hundred students, especially so AR air 011, 11 . _1,11, paragraph of the article in the question an a high boo) with ten teachers give adequate education  , - which smacks o f a nruch   ambitions program . v•