BOMBAY: The benefits of the co-operative movement will reach out to persons and places not within its fold if a resolution adopted by the Fourteenth Conference of Registrars of Co-operative Societies which resumed its deliberations in Bombay on August 1 is accepted by the Government of India.

The resolution recommended that “where the execution of a plan requires action by all members of an economic category or group it should be made compulsory for all either to join a co-operative society for the purpose or otherwise, to carry out the plan”.

The Conference considered that the system of co-operative joint farming should be introduced wherever circumstances are favourable and that at least one experiment in co-operative farming should be carried out in each Province and State.

[Meanwhile,] the German Radio said that Dr. Joseph Goebbels gave a survey lasting over one hour yesterday [July 31]of the principal methods he means to apply as trustee for total mobilisation. With courage and without mental reservations, the task was, said Dr. Goebbels to put an end to all work having no direct connection with the requirements of war. — (Dawn, Delhi)

Published in Dawn, August 2nd, 2014