Exhibit 22
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Subsidiaries of the Registrant
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The Registrant, during fiscal 1996, owned the following percentages of the 
voting securities of the following subsidiaries:

    Name                     Percent          Incorporated            Note
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 Bender Shoe Company           100%           Pennsylvania             (1)



(1)  Operates as a division of B.B. Walker Company, Inc.