WALK upon the City . street , For so halh fate it writ; Thoughts far away awl bitter-sweet Beguile with cheat my willing feet. This, this the trail 1 hit: The Fern Lake Trail, where virgin snow Lies soft and deep t he pines below. Away from road and far from rail. Snow shoe and ski to break the trail (Toboggnn's creak, t he squeak of thong. A, girl's bright sash, a snatch of song. A frost-nipped ear and quick snow rub, The rest at n??on for bite o' grub). That winds and twists its way to make From valley up to mountain lake, With cabin on Its frozen edge And ski-run down Its steep-hung ledge And campllre throwing yellow light That turns to gold a world of white ? A playground decked In brave array ? "Ho, ho, Jack Frost! We've come to play!" Sport In the snow? it's been the proper caper all winter and the American people are still at it all through the North ? from New England to Rocky Mountain and from Yospmite to Mount Itainier. Students of the times are commenting on It as a new phnse in the evolution of the nation. These winter sports have been growing in popular favor for several years. This winter, however, their voru" Is such as to make sociologists sit up and take notice. Now there are winter sports and winter sports. For example, on n Jnnuary Sunday 4f>.000 specta tors gathered at the Garfield park lagoon to see a thousand or more Chicago boys and girls compete in a ser'es of skating races. On the same Sunday 80.000 spectators attended an International akl tournament at Gary on Chicago's outskirts. That is not what I mean by winter sports. What I mean by winter sports, by sport in the snow, is the people turning out to do the playing themselves, not to watch somebody else do the playing. And the people are doing It this year. A generatjon or so airo the students of American life were complaining that the American people did not know how to play, took no vacations and all that sort of thing. Then the people did learn to play and did take vacations ? in the summer. The next change was that a class of vacationists was evolved who took vacations all the year round. They played In the North In the summer and fol lowed the warm weather South to Florida In the winter or West to California, or abroad. Now the* society visitors to the South have been Joined by the "Tin Can Tourists," who travel In flivvers ? more than 3.000 held the fourth annual convention of the Tin Can Tourists of the World in De Soto park, Tampa, ea *ly In January of this year. The latest devplopment of this recently acquired appetite for simmer and winter play on the part of the people 1;? sport In the snow. It has been evolved since he war. Perhaps the red-blooded younc felllows Abo came back from "Over There" in such fine physical condition that they must let off steam through real exercise havfe been in part responsible. Anyway, the idea has 'become wide spread that coasting, tobogganing, skiing, snow shoeing, skij< ring, hiking and all the other winter sports easily within the reach of the average Amer ican in the North are first-class fun. The comple mentary Idf a is that a real tussle with Jack Frost in his nati' e wilds Is more conducive to red blood and rosy chofks and a good appetite than less stren uous exercise under warmer skies at home or Abroad. An enthusiast might put it like this: tt&ZjT/T RAZtfZgFQ-B \ I Jack Frost, you arc no enemy of mine; I rather look to you as friend In need. V Tis true I love the outdoors all the year ? The recurrent miracle of the Spring And splendor of the good old Summer-Time ; But more I love the Indian Summer days Whose drowsy calm ia charged with Autumn's tang. Forecasting even then your coming reign. And most of all I love the world of white Of which you are the undisputed King Who shouts his royal message, "Snappy Days!" And offers to his subjects royal sports That set red blood to dancing In their veins. That give to them a joyous appetite, That bring such sleep ns money cannot buy. Ho, ho, King Jack ! It Is your reign of frost ' That hardens up the fiber of a man To stature full of body, mind and soul. Jack Frost, I know you for a wise old king! Jack Frost, I know you for a friend in need! Winter sports this season In New England are really on a big scale. About the middle of Decem ber a Boston Sunday newspaper felt warranted In getting out a "Special Winter Resort Edition" con taining page after page of display advertisements of winter resorts in Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts. It appears that over 100 hotels and inns are open for winter sports In these states, as against 60 last winter. The chambers of commerce In many cities have adver tised liberally all winter. The New England rail roads have made substantial reductions in fares for winter tourists. Enterprising cities have estate llshed municipal recreation grounds and arranged elaborate winter carnivals; some even advertised community Christmas trees, and a special program for Washington's birthday. Among them all they offer a long list of sports, Including tobogganing, snowshoelng, skiing, skijor ing, skating, sleighing, coasting, curling ski bob bing, hockey, ice boating, mountain climbing and hiking. Some even offer fishing through the Ice and sugarlng-off parties to a sugar camp. Scores of winter carnivals were staged during December, January and .February, with every sort of enter tainment In keeping with the season. The news columns of the Eastern newspapers re flect the activity in winter sports. They set forth the winter migrations of various city clubs. It also appears from the news columns that society Is do ing it, too. Country clubs by the score that ordi narily close with the golfing season opened their doors to gay parties. Hundreds of country estates were kept open and were crowded with guests, whose names were recorded at great length by the society reporters. Sleepy county commissioners had to wake up and buy tractors to clear the roads for sleighing and skijoring. Maine started in early to arrange a program and proclaimed its intention to become the "St. Morltz of America." The plans called for carnivals as fol1 lous: Waterville, January 25, 26 and 27; Portland. January 27; Augusta, February 15, 10 and 17; Ban gor, February 22; Bar Harbor, February 22, and the University of Maine February 8, 9 and 10. La fayette National park, the only one east of the Mississippi, is well adapted for winter sports and its use for that purpose Is encouraged by the na tional park service. In New York the Adlrondacks were perhaps the center of winter sport. Lake Placid has had throngs of merrymakers all winter. Plattsburg had many visitors and a carnival In January. Saratoga Springs was active. The city took over Recreation Field, made many Improvements and had an elabo rate sports program for a week late In January. The Interstate Palisades park on the Hudson was visited by thousands, Including boy scouts, girl yon. are scouts, Campfire Girls and their friends. There were ample hotel and camp accommodations aird Wsport premiums. >&o much for winter sports in New England and the ^ East. Now for a jump across the continent to r ational parks of the Scenic West. R ght here, however, it Is well to note that our nati(>n"l park system, containing nineteen reserva tion^ offers all-year attractions to the tourist, aside from the question of winter sports. Three of our national parks are all-year resorts ? Grand Can ?n> Hot Springs and Hawaii. Y(>semite, Mount Rainier and Rocky Mountain ...?e the three Western national parks where the winter merrymakers most do congregate. They are all | hree easily accessible. They all three offer mag-nificent scenery. They all three offer natural play grounds unsurpassed in the world. Enthusiasts helit ve tl,at u very few years will see them as full 0f vj sltors In winter as in summer. Yr ?seinite Is now an all-year national park under the auspices of the national park service. There 4,182 visitors from November 1, 1021. to h 1, 1922, and the attendance this winter has much greater. Most of the merrymakers stick ; to til e floor ?f Yosemite Valley, which is sheltered, j The hardier spirits climb to Glacier Point on the ! heig hts above. In a year or two there will be a modi-* winter hotel, an all-year motor road Into the valley and niaJ'be a mechanical lift to Glacier Point. ' Yose mite's Christmas tree is a living Sequoia, GO feet Mount Rainier has unusual sport in the snow be cause of its topography and climatic conditions. The mountain Is 14,408 feet ?high and, with its slope 8* covers 100 square miles. Its lower slopes i arc jieavlly timbered. Then there Is a flower' zone, j Thcv comes the everlasting snow and Ice. So vis itors *)ent on wInter sport can have It the year rounP- The hotel ln Paradise Valley (5,400 ele vatlcl") ^ c,08e to the sn()W and *ce- The reason officially begins June 1!5. The international ski fament is held in July each year. So you can winter sport one day and summer sport the werd Man been touri have* next RO You bile. the t haul the s ellng when And you hind tiona onlly publi Ameil iV?cky Mountain National park offers absolutely the r^al thing in the way of play in the snow with Jack Frost. Fern Lake (with Odessa Lake close bv) ]ias been selected for winter sports and Is a natui'al playground tucked away in a deep valley le east slope, right under the giant peaks of UM, Continental Divide. It's ten miles or so from Estes' I'ark, the east entrance to the national park. ?an get part way from Estes Park by automo Then the road quits. Then you've got to hit rail on snowshoes or skils, and you've got to in your duffel by toboggan. Why? Because Jnow is too deep for a packhorse; you're trav up among the branches of the pine trees. And you get to Fern Lake you'll live in log cabins. Ithere's the lake (8,500 elevation) in front of Jind natural toboggan slides and ski-runs be you and snowshoeing everywhere. Magnifl cent scenery Is all around you. Though there were 1,044,502 visitors to the na l parks last summer, the American people are Just beginning to know something about these c playgrounds. ? For example, the average Amcilcan assumes that because Rocky Mountain Natic ,nfll park Is perched on the Continental Divide it is 1 errtbly cold in winter. Well, the report of the Unlt< ld States weather bureau for the seven days, Janu iry 11-17, 1928, shows these maximum temper ature 8 : 48i 50, 50 ; minimum tempera tures. 30, 25, 17, 23, 14, 32. ?; Ne irly 2.000 red-blooded visitors have had the fun <'f gating up to Fern Lake and down agaii* this ivinter, to say nothing of the playground joys. The < "Umax of the fun i* the two weekB at the end of and the beginning of March. use or corar HUE PISSES BILL COME8 THROUGH 8ENATE BY VOTE OF FOfcTY-THREE TO TWO. ASSEMBLY AGMN5T RECESS Nsw Bills Introduced Include Regula tion of Charges .on Pull man Cars. Raleigh. After eijtan^lements in a parlia mentary maze probably unsurpassed in the annals of the Senate, the bill raising the age of consent from 14 to 16 years passed its final reading in the Senate by a vote of 43 to 2. The bill * emerged from the tangle somewhat I the w irse for amendments, but in a form satisfactory to its proponents. ; Discussion of the measure consim- ? ed practically all of the Senate ses sion and adoption of Senator Squires' summery motion to adjourn cut off consideration of the companion bill prohibiting marriages of persons un der sixteen years of age and every thing else on the calendar. However, fourteen new bills were introduced, j varying all the way from regulation of charges on Pullman cars to an amendment to the election law and including a new anerle of the Sanator- S ium invest'pration and a measure pro- j hibiting publication of details of elec- I trocutlons. When the age of consent bill was reached on the calendar it was erreeted by a ftock of amendments, a substitute and a motion to recommit Senator Varser, who introduced the measure, insisted upon immed'ate action, ac cepted some amendments, defeated others and had one adopted over his protest. The final roll call was taken after the measurs had passed, with Lieutennnt Governor Cooncr putting the motion with some of the Senators not knowing what was happening be cause of confucion in the chamber. The Senator recon^'dered that vote and on the roll call only Senators Hicks and Moss were recorded in the negative, both exp!ain?ne: that they en dorsed the principle qf the bill but thought it poorly drawn. The bill was supported by the North Carolina Legislative Council of Wo men and is the first measure on the propram of that organization to pass either house. At the hearing before 'the commUtee the measure was advo cated by a large delegation of promi nent women, including Mrs. Kate Burr Johnson. Mrs. T. W. Bickett and Mrs Palmer Jerman. Definite decision against a recess pend'ng the report of auditors now investigating the condition of the State Treasury was made by the Sen ate and House following assurance from the auditors through the special finance committee that a "certified current balance sheet" cannot be fur nished before April 1. By resolution introduced in the house by Speaker John G. Dawson and passpd by both bodies, the finance investigating com mittee is continued with authority to make its renort to the Governor and council of State in the event the Gen - eral Assembly has adjourned when that report is completed. The principal provision of the new election law introduced as a com mittee bill by Senator Boyette, limits absentee voting to persons who can prese \ a physician's certificate that, hey are unable to cast their votes in erson. Senator DeLaney offered two meas ures, one forbidd'ng surcharge trans portation on Pullmans within the State of North Carolina and the other presenting a new angle to the legisla tive investigation which has been or dered of the management of the State Sanitorium by L. B. McBrayer. The bill creates another measure to in quire into the val'dify of claims of the institution aggregating about $50 000 which are held by Charlotte contrac tors and which it Is alleged the^doctor . has refused to pay. The present charges for Pullman transportation in clude a surcharge of 50 per cent, col* lected by the Pullman Company for the U3e of the railroad c^mppny. New Member Takes Oath in House. Richmond county was aeain repre sented in the house of representatives when James F. Bennett, elected to suc ceed W. N. Everett, who resigned his seat in the House to become secretary of State, to succeed the late Colonel J. Bryan Grimes took the oath of of fice. Mr. Bennett took the oath at the hands of Speaker Dawson. Mr. Bennett is the second newly elected member to take oath In place of a member elected last November. Printing Inquiry Brought to Close. Legislative investigation of the state department of labor and printing, fol lowing charges by Dr. Charles Lee Smith, of discrimination against the Edwards A Broughton Printing com pany, one of the state printing con- ' tractors, of which he is president, came ! to ah end after 25 hours of actual tes timony. A sub-committee will now ' draft the committee report. M. L. Shipman, commissioner of labor and printing, and George Justice, ! former assistant commissioner, wore i tie principal witnesses. I To Install Radio Receive 1 A radio receiving suti0. 1? district office to receive and instructions fr< ;.j In Raleigh i? beins SUte Highway conwii,^:oiJ , ? stalled by March 1. Arrangements hav.> Uc.n . the North Carolina StaUj use its broadcast^ aiatir o'clock each morning at ;5! evening to handle the high* "'! ment's matter to engineers After making a study of th* use of rdio in giving instruct'' other material information tot? dreds of workers throughout t1 tl\e department decid. (J to k receiving stations ?in <"ach to urge resident e ? ';in-?:r3 ' where to install sets so 'j. be in daily touch witu the flee. Important information r,u, 9 the condition of vario : ,'j will be broadcasted tor tourists and traveler.--. These bulletins, it \v;i be published in the f v Joseph Hyde Pratt is pn sniv:: its recent annual meeting in Ra, was introduced in the seii.-ito tjys tor J. U. Baggett, who Ijls ;.;: several bills dealing w it h : ment of state institution.-: at t:.; sion. The bill provides that ! a: directors of the state ; ri r. : make such regulations as .? for the discipline of pri., the state prison and in cm-: :?> camps, except that flogtrin:: finement in dungeons an; carr-.; both classes of prisoner: George Itoss Fou, sup'. r.r.N the state prison stated tlu.t L-i oppose the feature of the h;!i : venting flogging on the j.-nt::;!': the power is necessary as a (i :-rr but that he has no objection t. -i ishing all the dungeons at the Urges Continuance of Prgoram. The University of North Ca:o: Alumni association of New York urged the continuance of the tional program of this state in ft tions adopted at a meeting Febtti 9. The resolutions, addressed to: governor, were received at the tire office, and reads as follows "Whereas, we, the University North Carolina Alumni associate New York City, at our meeting February 9, are greatly Impressed* the educational progross within state of North Carolina, realizing necessity of continuing sueh prcr and firmly believing in th ep.r.v.at cy of the recent great growth ar.i the future leadership of the North Carolina, do hereby r that we -express our hearty end " ment of the legislative program few month later Sally, follow nc >| prayer service in the prison, con'> religion, and in a sworn statement ^ clared she has sworn falsely wh? n involved her father in tho kiliinp Sallie was paroled a year or ago, and is now In the care of a faffl* ily who became interested in h<>r whil' she was in prison. Need New Depot at Washington. Fifty representative citizens ot Washington, pilated by Represents tive Lindsay Warren, most of members of members of the Wssfc* ington Kiwanig club, appeared befoft the State Corporation Commission ol petition for a new passenger statio* to .be built by the Norfolk Souther* railway. Officials of the company W peared against the petition. The present station was describe41 as being totally inadequate to thi growing needs of the thriving metrop* lis at the head of Pamlico aouoA