Chapter 26   Stokely arranged the loan, and within six months
Howard was controlling owner of the News-Record. There was a
debt of a million and a quarter attached to his ownership, but
he saw how that would be wiped out. Once more he threw himself
into his work with the energy of a boy. He had to give much of
his time to the business department--to the details of
circulation and advertising. He felt that the profits of the
paper could be greatly increased by improving its facilities for
reaching the advertiser and the public. He had never been
satisfied with the circulation methods; but theretofore his
ignorance of business and his position as mere salaried editor
had acted in restraint upon his interference with the "ground
floor."  As he had suspected, the business office was afflicted
with the twin diseases--routine and imitativeness. It followed
an old system, devised in days of small circulation and
grudgingly improved, not by thought on the part of those who
circulated the paper, but by compulsion on t