The Omaha guide., 1946-07-20

feel free to bestow my savings
where it seems to me these will be
of greatest public benefit. In seek
ing this end I was startled by a
realization of the huge economic
loss to the Nation which comes
from one-tenh of it's producers
being by reason of prejudice. fear
and tradition and their own ienor-
ance, barred from creating more
than a fraction of the National
wealth of which they are capable.
1t is therefore, my desire to do
what little I may to help Colored
Americans upward into a more
efficient and productive citizen
ship.
In those words the late Stanley
r. Osborn, Nebraska born author
and newspaperman expressed his
reason for setting aside the bulk
of his estimated 500, 100000 estate
to be used for the training of
young Negro men and women who
seek employment in industrial n
terprises.
The contents of the Osborn will
and his remarkable understanding
Of the problems encountered by
the Race group came as an ap-
preciable surprise to the colored
populace.
Mr.. Osborn, SO, who was a nat
i've of Blair, Nebraska, died June
25th at Duluth, MINI. He was a
graduate Of the Blair High School
and attended the University of
Nebraska from 1897 to 1900. He
lived in Samoa while his father
was United States CONSUL there.
1t was then that he obtained at
mosphere for his successful novel,
Red Hair and Blue Sea, a popular
fiction work of the 1920s. Among
his other writings were: The Ser
pent and Mr.. Henrdy's Heavens:
Two Feet and a Thousand Miles;
On Rush st. Bridge; The Lonliest
Man God Ever Made; and The
Knife In the Door.
Mr.. Osborn worked five years
for the Omaha Bee and the Daily
News and later for the Chicago
Tribune. He returned to Blair in
1920 and lived there until 1887.
During the last nine years he had
toured the South during the win
ter months and the Northern
States in summer.
In addition to the Educational
Fund, provisions we're made in
the will for relatives and the Ne
braska State Historical Society.
The will was filed for probate in
the County Court June 20, 1916
and will come up for hearing July
9th. Other sections of the last
will and testament dealing with
the Osborn Fund r as follows:
p. Said trustee shall thereafter,
as soon as any revenue begins TO
be able, expend and use the in
! come from the Stanley r. Osborn
Fund solely for the benefit of Ne
groes, giving effect to the follow
ing:
PROMOTE EMPLOYMENT
So long as conditions remain
about as present, 1 have a strong
preference for promoting the en-
ployment and advancement of
young Negro men and women in
the manufacturing and other in
dustrial plants.
SCHOLARSHIPS
Therefore, whenever Negroes
are being granted a reasonable
opportunity in the skilled crafts
and technical professions for
which they have been trained, l
ask my said trustee to aid them
to gain, through scholarship, main
tenance or such other method as
may be selected by the trustee,
such skills, arts, trades and engin-
eering and other techniques as are
in demand by the said industrial
plants. In so far as the University
of Nebraska offers reasonably
sufficient courses in such indust-
rial and technical training, / ask
that it be given preference. But
if my said trustee shall become
convinced that better results in
this particular field may be OBJ
tanned elsewhere, 1 ask that part
or all Of the said Osborn income
be used to aid Negro students at
the Illinois Institute of Technolo-
CIV. 1900 Federal Street, Chicago,
Illinois, or if satisfactory arrange
ments cannot be made there, then
at the Iowa State College, Ames,
Iowa.
CITES FEPC
When, however, these crafts and
professions are in practical effect
closed to Negroes as they wer pri-
or to 1913 and the setting up of the
Presidents Committee on Fair
Employment Practice, then the
said Osborn income shall go for
the above institutions in the order
named for whatever form of edu-
cation such university regards as
offering the best opportunities for
Negroes at that time.
PREFERENCE TO
NEBRASkANS
AS regards education aid, all de-
tails as to it's form, terms and
conditions, and method of select
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