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Show IMPORTANCE OF MAKING A WILL JF you want to save from worry those you leave behind you, make a Will. Even then they may have legal technical difficulties, dif-ficulties, but not so many as if you died intestate, and you will be more likely to have your money or effects distributed as you would want them to be. In a talk the other day with John Foster, Corn Exchange Bank, 33rd Street and 7th Avenue, New York City, he said 's j that a very large percentage of the business of lawyers came to them because of men and women dying without making a will. Said Mr. Foster, "the law will take care of your estate after you've gone far, far better than while you are here; It will take the full responsibility after your death of seeing that your wishes are carried out." D. Carnegie Then he tol(j me & story Q a relative of his, a widowed cousin, who was the second wife of her husband. hus-band. There were several children of the husband by his first wife. He died without a will. Since his children were all of legal age, and married, everything he had went to his second wife. Before she could make a will, she became ill, and never again was competent to make,a will. She died. What do you think happened to that husband's estate? Yes, it was inherited wholly by the distant relatives of Tiis second wi.'c. most c- whom he hnd never even so much as laid eves on. The children of the ma-j who earned the fortune got not so much r.s one penny! Do you think that was ?n accordance with what that man would have wished? You know full well that it wasn't. Another instance, known to me personally: A man named George Brown was killed in an automobile accident. Shortly thereafter, his only child, a daughter died, leaving no descend- I ant'. Her husband inherited the estate. He died after a few months, and before the estate had even so much as been set- I I tied, the property went to that husband's family, leaving out j entirely the twin brother of fhe founder of the estate, and the man who had helped him start it in his early years of struggle, strug-gle, and of whom he was very fond. Naturally, he would have wanted his twin brother to inherit over those who meant nothing noth-ing to him. Yes, make a will, and plan for what happens to your money in case your first choice never collects. |