Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 20, 1910, Page 13

THE OM News Suppression and Endowed Papers A Rejoinder to an Article by Prof. Edward a Ross in March Atlantic. “We waste altogether too much time on | the dally newspaper. Some of vou may be davoting halt an hour to reading the paper each day. Cut it down fo fifteen and you will find that anything. When have succeeded in dolog this, try reducing the time ten minutes, and you will find are doing still better. Then cut that down to five minutes a day and pretty soon you will be able to cut reading the newspapers altogether and you will get along just as well. The dally newspaper cannot give you ® true account of current events, You can get all you need to know in the weekly periodicals and the monthly magazines, and it you read two or three of these vou will have all the information about golng on about you that fs worth having Time spent in reading the newspapers worse than thrown Don't waste your lime on | This excoriation of much of the greéted my ears o when, in order to_ disturb the lecture tn progress, 1 siipped unnoticed into a ctlass room at the University of Nebraska. 1 had gone there to renew acquaintance with an old friend of college days. At the close of the lecture 1 pressed forward to whaké hands and, after words of mutual | Belight at meeting again after many 1 said: “Had 1 was would have supposed your newspapers was spe minutes you are not losing you o you out what s away newspapers. the and what vears ago newspaper same tenor s day a few more 18 not véars, you known to be here, latribe at lally prepared for my benefit and that were determined on putting all newspaper men out of business depriving us of readers.'” Well, 1 didn't’ really he answer “Perhaps I did use rather strong 1 but, as I recollect It that part of my lecture was written ‘originally under great provocation, just after some f the San Francisco papers had | been going after ma viclously.” From his article in the Atlantic on “The Buppression of Important News,” Prof. | Ross shows that while he has not himself | followed his own Injunction ‘“to. cut out reading newspapers altogether,” he has, however, retained his prejudice against the hewspaper, and Is as prone to exaggerate Its faults and deny it any virtues as he Was just aiter the San Francisco papers | Sad been grilling him unmereifully. | But taking up his bill of complaint, what sort of a case does he really make out| when the ovidence and arguments he| adduces are sifted and shorn of the in- vectlve and denunclatory adjectives inter- jected merely for full measure? The in- dictment is that the newspaper fails to give the ne and, of course, if it fails in this, | which its principal mission and rafson | dletre, it is worse than useless and time | devoted to newspaper reading s time wasted. 1 would be the last to assert that the newspaper as it exists today fs fault- less or that fmportant news is not some- times suppressed, although more often through mistake or negligence than through design. But the idea which Prof. Ross would instill, that the newspaper of today Is a greater offender in this respect than the newspaper of days gone b: almost self-contradictory. The facilities and resources for gathering news are so much greater nowadays than formerly that the amount of information of public interest glven newspaper publicity is many times multiplied. The searchlight pene- trates to every nook and orner and the opportunity for those directly interested to suppress news by intercepting it at its source or on its way to the public has been almost completely destroyed. The hurry and speed with which the news fs | put out each day in successive editions under stress of the fiercest competition— and the str gest competition between newspapers in getting the news first and scoring ‘“beats" ‘“'scoops” on one | another—make the suppression by one paper of news almost certain to be spread forth by paper, one of the rare occurrences than the commonplace which Prof. Ross would have us belleve. Now what is the “important news" which | we arc told is being suppressed? Prof. | Ross cites a few examples which he be- | lleves are flagrant and rcasons on the | theory of “false in one, false in all.”" I venture to assert, however, that it would be impossible fo find two experlenced | newspaper men who would agree on what | constitutes “important news.” Most news- paper men would doubtless agree that cer- taln eclass news items are of unusual importance, but it would not take long to develop unreconcilable differences of opin- fon as to specific items. The cus- | tomary rule of the newspaper office is to 1 the mean that,” was guage it rival rather news | altogether By Victor Rosewater. put. the most imporiant news each day on | the front page, yet the contents of no two front pages are ever alike even whers each | has at its disposal every item the other has. | What then makes news important? And | does the wealth or business prominence of | a eriminal make important an offense that would attract small attention, if an in a man in ordinary station? Is not one of the well founded criticisms leveled at our newspapers because they give undue weight to wealth and blazon the foibles and follies of the millonaire in space that might better be devoted to something more ugeful? Is a crime committed by an adver- tiser more important than the same crime committed by some one who does not ad vertise? If Prof. Ross were conducting the endowed newspaper, which is ‘his remedy for all these evils, would he give publicity as to “important news to the filthy which he accuses Philadelphia newspapers with suppressing out of consideration for their advertising patronage, while a New York scandal monger played it up In order to sell papers on the strength of that sup- pression? 1 freely admit that stuff like | that is suppressed or minimized every day | by reputable newspapers who will not con- | cede its “importance’ whether it concerns an advertiser or a non-advertiser Incidentally, it must be remembered that the newspaper is a legally responsible in-| stitution that can be, and is, held to| answer in damages for libel. It is easy for | irresponsibles to circulate rumors reflect- ing on people’s reputations and slide out from under when the lurid tales are dis- proved. Loose talk and idle gossip are ditferent (from cold type In | black and white; the newspaper cannot say it did not print it or meant to sa something else. This also accounts in plll‘{l for the contrast of daring recklessness of | the new-born paper with nothing to lose and everyting to gain from libel suit notorlety and the established paper of character that is naturally more conserva- tive because of what it has at stake. Prof, Ross would apparently classify as “important news'" such occurrences as the misbranding of goods, the sale of potted cheeese treated with preservatives, the | single tax agitation, assaults and resorts to violence instigated by employers | (why not by employes) in time of labor trcubles, the dismissal of a school teacher by a corrupt (?) school board, the shut-down of a factory | or the lay-off of workmen, especially In| times of industriul depression. The rela- | tive “importance” of news items on such subjects as these, everyone knows who | knows anything about newspaper making, depends upon a whole lot of things. News Is important only by comparison, and what is of first importance one day Is of sec- ondary Importance another day. When there is really big news doing, everything | else is cut to the bone or sidetracked | altogether, What s Important to one news- paper because of its local bearing is un- Imporiant to anoiher. Some of the sup- pressed items mentioned by Prof. Ross may have been entitled to consideration | as “important news" under the pecullar clrcumstances surrounding them, but it is also quite concelvabl: that they might be under other clrcumstances condensed each to a few lines and -stuck away on some back page, without any malicious design or delfberate conspiracy of silence, but on the contrary with due regard to all the demands of the numerous varleties of news simultaneously clamoring for space at that very moment. Because newspapers as a rule prefer construction to destruction, they are ac- cused by Prof. Qoss of malfeasance for selfish purposes. True, a newspaper de- pends for Its own prosperity upon the pros- perity. of the community in which it is published. The newspaper seltishly prefers business prosperity to business adversity. A panic is largely psychological and the newspapers can do much to aggravate or to mitigate its severity. There is no ques- tion that to the wilful efforts of the news- | papers as a body to allay public fear and to restore business confidence is to be credited the short duration and compara- tive mildness of the last financlal cata- clysm. Would an endowed newspaper have | acted differently? Most people would freely | commend the newspapers for what they did to start the wheels of industry again revolving, and this Is the first time I have | mess | seen them condemned for suppressing *im- portant news’ of business calamity and industrial distress in suhservience to a worship of advertising revenue. | meitmes the Indictment proves alto- gether too much. Prof. Ross ascribes the E (1. OR THE $1,500 PLAYER PIANO or at any figure. between RN THE PLACE | WE WILL CONVINCE YOU } TWELVE LEADING MAKES TO OHOOSE FROM It you wish the world's best plano player ‘attachment, especially with th the Mason & Hamlin. he Welte with outside Player—the greatest com- | weekiies | the people with the grand work they are | newspaper muck as raking ehicles know rak popularity of their service news,” when know, that not one zine story In 100 gives a single fact that has not already had newspaper publicity. The ‘“muck rake' magazine writer, with few exceptions, simply gathers together In striking succession or contrast what the local newspaper has printed in detall, a bit at & time as it occurred. He tries to glve a bird's eye view (too often grossly distorted) of a public scandal, or a oivic tragedy that has been already un- magasines to of suppressed or ought ' maga nportant he must to muck acts, AHA BEE 20, 19 SUNDAY MARCH 1 Miller, Stewart & Beaton —313-15-17 SOUTH 16TH STREE T s Oriental Rug Sale We have just received our new spring stock of Oriental Rugs. Among them are many rare pieces of unusual beauty and worth, rolled in the newspapers in several and the magazine is in great demand | among the people immediately affected and | familiar with the facts, eager to a fantastle tale can be woven much of the truth has been suppres: make it thoroughly sensational We are told that partisan newspapers suppress news reflecting on the party party leaders menacing party If 50, there is always a partisan paper of | the other party sure o print it. We are | told that “nonpartisan” leaders are meeting with cheering response when they found in order to reach their natural The referance to weeklies founded by “nonpartisians” plainly points to Willlam J. Bryan's Commoner, Tom Watson's Monthly and LaFollette's Maga- zine. Let some one who disagrees with the policy and the purpose of any one of these papers submit something that does not accord with the editors' “nonpartisan” ideas and see how quickly It ls “suppressed” by prompt return to the ‘unavall- able.” We are told again that five ¢ started periodical publications for free dis- tribution at taxpayers' expense “to ac- quaint the citizens with municipal penings and affairs” as if what {8 given were suppressed by the newspapers. Every intelligent person in each of those cities knows that the reason is an en tirely different one. Those municipal pub- | lications are purely advertising sheets got ten out by the officials to boost their towns and incidentally themselves and impress e wha row ed o and or sl following | | | | writer as | s have hap- | thus doing. Not,a thing of news value appears in any of them that is shut out of the daily papers, and if occasionally they pro- duce something worth while from the pen of some one worth quoting, the whole item is eagerly seized by the newspapers and only by reprinting in the newspaper se- cures the publicity it deserves. Finally, we are told that because of suppression of news, ‘‘the spoken word is once more a powe and 80 the demand for lectures and speakers is “unsatiable” and the platform bids fair to recover its old prestige; the “smotherers” are “‘dlsmayed” by the growth of the chau- tauqua circuit; congressional speeches give vent to “boycotted truth” and circulate widely under franking privilege (why then free postage?); clubs are formed to listen to facts and ideas “tabooed by press;” more Is made of public hearings before committees of counclimen or legis- tors. But what is making the spoken word a power? Is It the hypnotic influence of soul-stirring oratory or the unanswerable loglc with which it argues? Is it inquis- itivensss to learn facts that the news- papers are conspiring to stifle? Is it not rather because of the publicity which the newspapers freely accord, be- cause thrdugh newspapers the speaker whose voice is heard by a mere handful of people, reaches thousands upon thou- sands who do not know him except by | newspaper reputation, and whom he has | never seen at all? Why does a chautauqua | clreult rider try to beat the record for long | distance talking? Why does he crowd and push to make a seconding speech at a great national convention? Why does he pitchfork his remarks with bizarre lan- guage? Why is he so complacent to be snap shotted for his photograph? Why does he take to farming (at a financial loss)? Why—if not for the free newspaper advertising which is to create the “in-| satiable”” demand for him as a lecturer and enable him to increase the share of the gate receipts which he hopes to get? If the Congressional Record is a mine of “boycotted truth” which the newspapers are suppressing, it ought to be the most popular publication extant and boast a big- ger circulation than them all. Why buy a “muck rake" magazine If you can get it all for nothing by a simple request to your congressman? How does it come that more is now made of public hearings h?'l fore Investigatyng committees? How do we | get such investigations anyway? Are they not in nine cases out of ten the outgrowth of newspaper exposures and are they not fully exploited in the newspapers? 1f the work of investigating committees belonged to the class of Important news ‘“‘sup- pressed” by the newspapers, what effect would the investigations have if they the dally | 2New Tariff Then Put Into Effect by This collection consists of large and medium sizes, in room size rugs, Kis Kelim Couch Covers and Draperies. Hundreds of the smaller sizes, such as Royal and Princess Bokharas, Kazaks, Carabaughs, Cabestans, Daghestans, Shirvans, Ana- tolians, Belouchistans, Sennas, Mosuls and many other weaves. Many dealers purchase their rugs of eastern importers and pay their enormous profits. These Oriental rugs are ship- ped to us direct from the Orient by our oriental rug buyer, thus saving the profits asked by the New York Importer. This not only saves our customers many dollars, but assures;them that every piece is genuine. We would be pleased to have you call and inspect this grand display, feeling that it will be a source of Oriental Rug education and interest to you. There are many varieties and such a wide range of sizes that it is not difficult,to fit any space you may require, The prices we herewith quote are but an indextto the,gen- eral run of values this sale offers: Khiva Rug, Kashmir Rug, 11x7-11.... Muskabad, 11-3x7-3 ...... Kazak Rug, 9-10x4-7 ..... Bergama Rug, 4-2x3-1 ... Bergama Rug, 4-6x3-2 ... Belouchistan Rug, 4x3 ... Belouchistan Rug, 4x2-11 KelimRug, 6-5x3-10 ...... Mosul Rug, 6-8x4-2....... Kashmir Rug, 11x8-2 ......... Khiva Rug, 8-3x7 ..... Kashmir Rug, 11-9x8-7 ........§ Kazak Rug, 9-8x3-8 ... $52 | Kashmir Rug, 6-2x4-9 Bergama Rug, 3-9x3-9 ......$12.50 | Kazak Rug, 5-7x7-7 .......c.cau.. Belouchistan Rug, 11x7-5......$145 | Ghoravan Rug, 15-4x10-2 Belouchistan Rug, 4-9x2-8 R $20 Cabistan Rug, 4-4x2-8 ..... ... - $2 Kelim Rug, 5-8x4-2 ..... 8 | Hamaden Rug, 3-7x2-5 ... . wuccn. . §8 Shiraz Rug, 5-7x4-5 ..... 56 | Belouchistan Rug, 8-5x2-10..... . §18 2h shiraz Rug, 6-8x4-2 ...........$100 | Kashmir Rug, 6-6x4-4 $29.50 Royal Bokhara Rug, 4x3-4 .... Royal Bokhara Rug, 4-2x3-2.....842 | Mosoul Rug, 6-6x4-2 ......:....$44 Taprez Rug, 6-8x4-4 ..........§ Kirmaushah, 3x4-11 ............$48 | Muskabad Rug, 11-9x9 ........$210 Six bales of Belouchistan Rugs, regular value, each, $30.00; on sale for, each..........$18.00, $20.00 and $22.00 New Arrivals of Lace Curtains and Curtain Nets Bungalow Nets—Forty varieties, in natural color, red and green, all 50 inches wide; special price, per yard. .......30¢ Italian Filet Nets —Twenty new patterns in white and ecru, ranging in price from $1.25 t0.. coaeseun. o osiais s BN Colonial Nets—The latest importation, in white or Arab; prices range from $1.70 t0.... cac.eieanoms . 8BC Curtain S8crim—Plain or fancy, white, cream and ecru; price, per yard, 35c and . e w28C Lace Edging—We carry a complete line of lace edging to match all fancy nets; price, per yard, 5c¢ and..............3¢ $110 | Guenji Rug, 9x4-1. 95 | Guenji Rug, 7-10x4-1 . 25 | Guenji Rug, 7-7x4-2 .. | [ | I Lace Curtains We have made large purchases of lace curtains, anticipating a greater demand this spring than usual. Wonderful concessions in price to be seeured by extensive purchases enables us to offer exceptional values. The new stock consists of DUCHESS LACE in Ivory with plain or figured centers. CLUNY LAOE, in the latest desi LAOET ARABIAN CURTAINS with dainty edges and beautiful insertions with corner designs, very suitable for Reception Rooms, Halls or Dining Rooms; also a very complete line of REAL SAXONY BRUSSELS and POINT DE MILAN, SWISS POINTS and NOVELTY NETS. Every known variety of Lace Curtain is represented in our new stock. '~ Make Your Selection While the Assortment is Complete. much on the raise, but because it is a direct discrimination against Omaha, Sioux | City and other river towns in favor of | Kansas City. Two roads from Kansas City | to Chicago, the Alton and the Wabash, | have refused to take in the increase, and | this gives Kansas City an advantage over Omaha of 5 cen 100. 1t Is this dis crimination which local interests ject to. President Stickney is Missed. statement show that over a year ago they took off their meat train and have not tried to get any of that business. LAWYERS JOLT CATTLE FIRM AGAIN FOR THEIR OWN FEES | Gurley & Woodrough Produce Law Showing that They Get Pay in Addition to Judgment. 1 suit, and his decision is expected soon. The fee, if legal, is not considered un- reasonable, for the law sult was a lengthy, one involving the testimony of more than| two score witnesses. Three thousand sheep, of a shipment of 5000 died of thirst while! being shipped from Nampa, Idaho, to St Paul. All the parties are non-residents of, Nebraska and for this reason the railroad company could not transfer the case from district to federal court. LET THE DOCTOR HASTEN ON S0 Says Connell Reference the Coming of Marine Expere to In- spect Water. MEAT RATE BOOST SUNDAY All Roads but One. per the ob- GREAT WESTERN SWINGS IN LINE Increase Will Go Into Effect May 20 on This Road—Rallrond Men Say Amainst This Apparent. Local interests expected the Great West- ern to protect Omaha against the dis- | erimination of the other roads, but that road has changed hands. President Stick- | ney is no longer at the helm, and the first opportunity given to the new Morgan road to show its hand found that road lined up with the others and It has given notice that it will also raise the rate May 20. Rates on dressed meats from Omaha and Kansas City to St. Louis are the same, 18% | cents per hundred. The rate on dressed meat from Omaha to Chicago after tomor- row on all roads except the Great Western will be 23% cents per 100 pounds. That road will continue to haul it for 20 cents until May 20. The law firm of Gurley & Woodrough, which jolted the Oregon Short Line some months ago with a verdict for 36,200 in the suit of the North Wisconsin Cattle com- pany, has deeply pained the raflroad and the railroad’s attorneys by Aigging up a statute under which it is asked that the road be made to pay the attorneys of the winning side. An attorney fee of $1,500 is asked the Hepburn law, one section of which provides that in the event of losses on | Interstate shipments, the railroad, which ts stuck by a verdlet for this, may also | be called upon to pay the lawyers on | the other side. Tnere have been one or | Discrimination City Only Sunday is the day on which the rafiroads running out of Omaha, Western, will raise the rate on dressed meat shipments from Omaha to Chicago. The railroads have advertised the new rate and have notified the Interstate Commerce commission thirty days in advance and say the rate will go into effect March 20 as announced, Jobbers, live stock Interests, the Com- mercial club, business men generally and | | | except the Great Health Commissioner Connell has recefved a letter from Dr. A. Wyman, chief of the Marine Hospital service of the United States, inquiring when Dr. Lunsden |<l|4|ul(|‘r come to Omaha to make his examination of city water. * Dr. Connell has written in reply that the sooner the marine surgeon begins his in- under | should eventuate only in a voluminous re- port made weeks and months after all the | beat had cooled and the whole affair had been forgotten? Not only do I been struck a ‘‘staggering ‘defection of the press,” but 1 assert that modern democracy is as mu a produet of the newspaper as the newspaper product of democracy. A few black sheep in the newspaper fold do not make the whole flock black, nor do the combined imperfections of all wspapers condemn them to fallure. Personally, 1 would like to see the experiment of an endowed news paper tried, because I am convinced com- parison would only redound to the advan- tage of the newspaper privately conducted as a commerclal undertaking. The news- paper most akin to the endowed newspaper | fn this country is published in the in | terest of the Christian dence chureh. | With it, “important news" Is news cal culated to promote the propaganda of the faith, and close inspection of its column: would disclose news suppression in every | issue. On the other hand, a dally news-| paper standing on its own bottom, must have readers to make Its advertising spa valuable, and without a reasonable effoft | to cover all the news and command public | confidence, the standing and clientage of the paper cannot be successfully main- | tained. The endowed paper pictured to us | democ blow" deny that is a | not some of the towns of the state have made a protest against the advance, but the they will put it in effect making the claim that it will hurt Omaha. Several meetings have held and strong resolutions of pro- test sent to the railroads, a delegation vis- ited the traffic heads of the railroads at Chicago, but received litlle eatisfaction. The matter {s now in statu quo, as the inte have decided to await re- ilts for a short time Omaha protests against | vestigation the better. This letter should two decisions under this section, but the |reach Dr. Wyman Monday, and it Dr. point Is novel in Nebraska Lunsden should start Tuesday he would It s contended by the other side that | arrive in Omaha probably next Thursday. the Wisconsin Cattle company won its vic- | Dr. Lunsden is the marine surgeon who tory under the %-hour shipment law and | has been appointed to make an investiga- | not under the Hepburn act, the sections | tion of the Omaha city water, on request | of which, therefore, do not apply. The |of Governor Shallenberger. The governor motion to grant the $1500 was argued acted on request of the Douglas County before Judge Redick, who heard the origi- | Medical society Railroad men say they cannot see any discrimination against Omaha, and say | they will wager it will not before the other lines from raise their rates so that all charges of diserimination will be done away with They say the Alton & Wabash will be in | line before the raise is made by the Great | Western, o that Omaha will not suffer Burlington officials take the stand that | they for the ! is it and anyway, be six weeks | Kansas City been ocal ests s do not care as there | of businest the rate, in The Fountain Head of Life Is The Stomach a weak and impaired stomach and who does not properly digest his food will soon find that his blood has become weak and impoverished, and that his whole body is improperly and insufficiently nourished. 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World's Dispensary Medieal Association, Dr, It. V., Pierce, Pres., Buffelo, N. Y, | as the 1deal paper, run by a board of gov- | | ernors, filled in turn by representatives of the various uplift socleties enumerated b Prof. Ross, would blow hot and would blow | cold, would have no consistent policy or| principles, would be unable alter the | prevailing notion of what constitutes im. portant news, and would be from the out- set busily engaged in a work of news sup- | pression to sult the whims of the particular | hobby riders who happened for the m | ment to be in dominating contro! bination on earth. If you desire the player plano which contains the best player mechan- fsm, buy the Apollo Player, with the marvelous new Solo accenting device f you are seeking the highest grade automatic player piano, we have VIEW OF THE AQUAPLANE. to M. HOWARD make a radical change in methods of navigating the in waters of United through his “aquaplane | (S will make his fir his little model boa City D Her Clever Motive. Improvement “80 you are golng to housekeeping as | Plerre D. | soon as you're married? 1 thought you|As Will be seen | had made up your mind to boara?" boat cuts out | “Yes, but George is equally determined | to have & house of our own.” “And so you are going to keep house in | order to please George?" “No, I'm going to keep house so that George will be-glad to board.''—Cleveland Plain Dealer, who ' freeze a priet up time al tria r had last fall but the stopped any secured and in But the beat is now 1eady the.power in place, is clear of lee the n the s the States, | stalled his pow He! t long trip in when he leaves For to attend Missouri o be held s of this month {liustration, the old stern wheel method of driving the boat through the water, but instead oarries a servies of “paddles’ on endless chains which run on either side of the boat, Ifting, as well as pushing the boat forward. Mr. Howard, who resides at Gettysburg, S. D., expeoted to get his boat to be launched, with in Engraved Stationery Wadding Ipitations _ Aneuncements Visiting Cards Mo '»',Efi foon SRS peti ran e — Embossed Monogram Stationery and other work executed et prices lower than usually prevail cleewhere. A. 1. ROOT, INCORPORATED 1210-1212 Howard St. Phone D. 1604 gl and eading deal and as soon a n be get a speed hour, and can shallow channell the aft riv he water. Mr method of pro- | boat of sufficie P to fully sixty miles run his boat in & very | The mode! is & small one and the inventor does not expect to get ' more than abou: fifteen miles an hour out of it, but des prove his plan by a prac- tical test, and If his theory proves correct, to capital for & boat large anough for commercial purposes. st | will ge ¢ into 4 s the River | Howar leves convention at | pulsion n, wit e easy it In the Strich & Zeidler-Welte, at §1,600; if the lowest priced, we have that in |lier Boudoir at o ]{I 'h”s E yOou want a we pWn plano, with a good player on the insid we huve the Krakawer, Kranich & Bach, A. B Chase. Bush & lane ¢n Baker, Cable-Nelson, Kimball, Uriversal, Hospe, etc., ete. Kach have spe- clal advantages. At is impossible (o fudge a player plano from hearing it alone, without a ohi ® to compare it with other makes, and it is very Snmcun 10 carry & mental impression around from store to store. It was to remedy this ccndition, and to make selection both sim ure, that we arranged to represent the player pianos of the twelve igiotories. By making compariscns at Hospe's you can secure r piano, and the reasons why. We allow liberal amounts for used planos In exchange and arran terms. the last da; powe Complimentary demonstrations daily to visitors or buyers. by thie ] o A. HOSPE C0., 15131515 Dougas 1. THE PLAYER PIANO CENTER OF OMANA. then secure