C O-OPE.?A ?I'IVE requires a well equipped "Indian Co-operative Service" at least as much an "Indian Industrial Service" or an "Indian Chemical Service". The Maclagan Committee has devoted a consider- able portion of its excellent report to the organization of the higher official .machinery'of co-operation in India.' There is no denying that the co-operative movement owes a great debt to the Registrars and othdr higher officials. But the time has come when there has to be arranged a systematic organization o! an "Indian Co-operative Service ". The first essential for this is ? make the department and the service a permanent one.. It is needless to say that with the future develdpment which awaits co-operation, the co-operative service will be one of the largest manned services. All will agree that such a service should include some of the very ablest men in the country, t?e better class of men will and that temporary department with prospects which it involves. department on which the part of the population least be second to no pay, prospects or permanency. But "Indian proved not enter a uncertainty o! the co-operative of ot?er department all the Surely prosperity of such a large India depends should at as regards while advocating that Co-operative Service" should be we would also propose measures t?e prospects of the much im- by which the recreiting of the service should be most carefully conducted. The aspirants to the service should be regularly trained and then go through an examination. The course of study should include: (a) Theory and practice of co-operation, (b) Accounting, (c) English banking theory and practice. Lectures should be
delivered on each of these subjects under the auspices of societies like the Bengal Co-operative Organization Socie?Y.o The lecturing on the first head should not
