TUNE IN TOMORROW kaw adb bellit fit 3 oday daw D relax lad es don t feel guilty about listening to the great and grievous trials of john s ether every day at 11 15 a in brought to you through the courtesy of Phil bottom s ossified sheep D p the news is now out that soap operas as presented interminably on the radio actually might do you some downright good an anthropologist prof W lloyd warner and a psychologist dr wilham william E henry tuned in on a daytime radio serial over a long period and arrived at the ponderous solution that soap operas are of considerable value to our society the two scholars consultants for a research organization which di erected the study tor for columbia broadcasting system based their report on a detailed analysis of the serialized drama big sister women being the chief listeners it is they who derive the greatest benefits from these daytime dirges by having their egos bolstered and their spirits strengthened by hear ing stories of fictional women going through problems and experiences that parallel their own the fists pointed out the basic and primary theme Is that good and noble women who are wives and mothers are invincible within their own arena of life the amer can family said the report men who are supe rord nate elsewhere are dubord nate and de pendent yi p the story on the wis dom of the wife this primary theme always triumphs over the second theme which runs counter to it that family ties can be broken and a woman s security threatened chiefly by the loss of the husband to other women and quite seconda rily and obliquely by death moreover the social scientists said the program among other things provides its women listeners with moral beliefs values and techniques for solving emotional and interpersonal problems and makes them feel they are learning while they listen in brief the report added up to a clear cut spiritual and moral vie tory of the soap opera over its hard ened and blase critics