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SOME NOTES ON THE PRACTICE OF CO-OPERATION NANALAL C. MEHTA, x.c.s. the habit of placency Statistics are apt 'to be delusive unless limi?fions inherent in them. fostering an atmosphere especially when they register manifestations of a progressive movement. forgotten that numbers as such cannot measure values, that they have always to be read with Figures have a of pleasant corn- the numerical It is often moral interpreted in the light of precise understanding of the ideas under- lying them. The annual reports on the progress of. the co- operative movement issued by the provincial registrars seem to relate happy tsles with only minor tragedies here and there which generally have a moral and an explanation attgched to them. The result is not infre- quently a facile optimism in the mind of the public, for do not the swelling figures of societies, members, pessan? hss now grssped ?he blessings of. eo opers?on, and that strife is giving way to harmony, slowly but