Lydia Pinkham and Other Washingtonians.

The youthful ardor and rash idealism of the Brain Trust finally have contrived to make Washington the scene of a mortal conflict over a fundamental issue of human rights. No doubt it was fated from the beginning to be so, although few could have suspected fate of choosing such a vehicle. The latter is now discovered to be the so-called Copeland, or Tugwell, bill, which seeks to enlarge the scope of the old pure food and drugs act. Without bandying words it can be stated that this measure frankly challenges the sacred right of a freeborn American to advertise and sell horse liniment as a remedy for tuberculosis or, to phrase it in a wholly different way, his God, given right to advertise and sell extract of horsetail weed as a cure for diabetes.