TO TIE UP WHOLE OHIO LINE
Shopmen on Strike Threaten to Pre-
vent Running of All Trains.
When such repetition is necessary for greater clearness, there is no objection to it, but to make several decks merely repetition in other words of the first is a not uncommon fault that should be avoided. If, for example, the foregoing head had been expanded into four decks by mere repetition, the result might have been the following head, in which but one fact is presented.
TO TIE UP WHOLE OHIO LINE
Shopmen On Strike Threaten to
Prevent Running of
All Trains
TRAFFIC TO BE AT A STANDSTILL
Strikers Say That No Freight or Pas-
senger Service Will Be Possible
Over the Road Affected.
Most newspapers prefer to have the statement in each deck grammatically independent of that in the preceding deck; that is, they avoid extending a statement through two decks. How such a continuous statement is sometimes made, however, is shown in the following head from the New York Sun:
MORSE SAYS IT WASN'T FAIR
TO PUT HIS STORY IN THE HANDS
OF GOVERNMENT AGENTS
One peculiar form of headline, some of the best examples of which are found in the Cincinnati Enquirer, depends for its effect upon this continuation of a state-
