Radio stars (Oct 1935-Sept 1936)

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DOES RADIO RULE WOMEN VOTERS "I DON'T know much about radio," Fannie Hurst admitted with characteristic frankness, "but I do know," and her soft voice rang with conviction, "that it's the most important new dimension in the history of politics. "In the past few years American women have taken an increasing interest in politics, but, with the advent of radio that interest mounts toward a tremendous force. Many women have no extra money to enjoy theatres and concerts, so they stay at home and tune in their radios. Or, doing their own housework, they turn on their radios to relieve the monotony. "It is to these women, women with brooms and mops and irons and rolling pins, women with knitting needles and babies' diapers, that radio is a boon. Mind you, not in just furnishing entertainment, but a boon in making a woman feel important, in causing her to realize that she, too, has a voice in running this country of ours. No longer need a woman blindly follow her husband's or her father's or her brother's political opinions. She can form her own opinions — and she does! Because she can now