The papers have found a new crusade. That is how Gail keeps the papers selling. He finds a crusade and then squeezes it for all it is worth. The new crusade is living conditions in the`slums and "Landlord Sharks". As part of this crusade my editor, Alvah Scarret, asked me to do some investigative reporting. For two weeks I have lived in the hall bedroom of an East-Side tenement. It wasn't easy to live there at all. There were no windows in my apartment and all of my meals had to be cooked in the downstairs neighbors kitchen. There wasn't a shower so I had to bathe with cold water from a tin pan. My story on my two weeks there was brilliant. Probably one of the best pieces I have written in a long time. It was fun to tear apart the people who run these buildings, especially because I do know a few of the people who own them.
Since my articles on life in the slums have appeared in the papers I have been asked to a number of different dinner parties. Everyone asks me disbelievingly if I actually lived there. It is much fun to spit back at them a perfect account of the horrible conditions in their own buildings. I have now also been asked to give a speech to a group of social workers. I'm sure I'll do the Wynand Papers proud.
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Ellsworth Toohey says: Your article was quite brilliant but I believe your articles on Howard's work later on to be much better. After all you destroy him more thoroughly than anything I could have ever done to him and you do it while secretly praising him.
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