Date:    1/5/98  1:48 PM
Subject: Arthur Levitt, re S7-25-97
     
     
I am very much opposed to the stockholder gag rule - S7-25555-97 that ould 
prevent many stockholder initiatives from being deliberated and voted upon 
at open stockholder meetings.  Key among the stockholder motions that would 
be outlawed are those that affect women.  This proposed rule would prevent 
many motions and information on issues including fair employment practices 
(such as sex and race discrimination and harrassment) from being brought to 
stockholders' attention.  The rule would alsoprevent questions on gender 
balancing boards, the use of child labor, and other ways that employees, 
investors and customers force corporations to change their actions when they 
have refused to act on their own. 
 
Please do not put this pernicious rule into effect.  Surely it is the 
purpose of the SEC to see that stockholders  are informed about the 
companies in whom they own shares, and to give them opportunities to voice 
their opinions.
     
Lillian Adams
310 Union Grove Road
Carbondale, IL 62901