Also he had an eye for effects with type.
"You make every page a picture," Howard said to him. "It is wonderful how
you balance your headlines, emphasising the important news yet saving the
minor items from obscurity. I should like to see the paper you would make
if you had the right sort of illustrations to put in."
Vroom was amazed at himself. He who had opposed any "head" which broke the
column rule was now so far degenerated into a "yellow journalist" that,
when Howard spoke of illustrations, he actually longed to test his skill at
distributing them effectively.
* * * * *
Two months of hard work, tedious, because necessarily so indirect, produced
a newspaper which was "on the right lines," as Howard understood right
lines. And he felt that the time had come to make the necessary radical
changes in the editorial page.
The _News-Record_ had long posed as independent because it supported
now one political party and now the other, or divided its support. But this
superficial independence was in reality subservience to the financial
interests of the two principal owners. They made their newspaper assail
Republican or Democratic corruption and misgovernment in city, state or
nation, according as their personal interests lay.
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