Subject: File No.S7-25-97

Date:    11/22/97 12:38 AM
     
     
Mr. Leavitt, Chairperson
Securities and Exchange Commission
     
I've owned stock for 19 years.  I am concerned that your proposal to change 
shareholder and annual meeting rules for corporations.  Corporations have 
responsibilities to their stockholders that they are likely to ignore unless 
the stockholders can remind them.  If I lose the power to protect my 
investment, I may consider taking my money out of the US stock market to a 
safer place.
     
Please explain these rules and the reason for them.  Have the current rules 
led to decisions that created some harm to the general public?
     
Peace,
Charles Jordan
214 Summer Circle
Boones Mill, VA  24065
540-721-3232