Excerpt from The Voice of the Street
The voice of the street! The street dazzling, roaring, clashing, straining - so it seems to the two million Italians who in the last few years have poured into the great American cities.
Joseph Stella was one. Like the other two mil lion, he came from a country picturesque and simple and sunny - hills covered with vineyards, dotted with villas, old churches and little hamlets - places where Music and Art rise eternal in the souls of men.
The two million who come to America are promptly nicknamed "Dagoes," and are put to work in ditches and sewers and tunnels and tenement sweatshops. Not long ago a factory inspector found a young Italian mother in her tenement room in New York - late at night, still sewing on coats and pants for the sweatshop. Her two wee children worked beside her. The only English words she knew were "Boss" and "Rent." She had been thirty-six hours in America!
So it is with most of the two million.
But Stella had means.
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