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The text outlines Palestine’s geographic limits and rural, predominantly agricultural character, then details Jewish demographic concentration and the limited prospects for Arab cooperation, drawing on a British government report by C. F. Strickland. 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3,200,000 members(including contract members,share-holders,shippers,consignors,and pa-trons)and an estimated business for the1931-32 marketing season of 1,925 mil-lion dollars.The readers should bearin mind that Palestine is not muchlarger than Vermont in area—about  \n10,000 square miles—of which onlyabout one half can be said to be cultiva-ble at present and until more is knownof the water resources and the soil con-tents of the south(\"Negeb\"),which,together with the deserts,constitutesabout one third of the total area of Pal-estine.Its population of 1,035,821,including about 66,000 Bedouins,issomewhat less than that of RhodeIsland and Vermont combined.Pales-tine is predominantly agricultural andrural,twenty communities having apopulation of over 5,000.Only ninecommunities have a population of  \n10,000 or more,and four have 45,000or more.Jerusalem,with 90,407 per-sons,is the largest city.1  \n# CoöPERATIVE MoVEMENTPREDOMINANTLY JEWISH\n\nThough the coöperative movementin Palestine antedates the British Man-date by more than thirty years,most ofthe societies are less then ten years old.Primarily,the coöperative movement,especially in the fields of coöperative  \n1 About 60 per cent of the population inJerusalem is Jewish.  \n# The Coöperative Movement\n\nBy HARRY VITELES  \ncredit and marketing,has been con-fined to the Jews,of whom,accordingto the Government census in Novem-ber 1931,there were 174,610.2 About  \n50,000 Jews reside in the agriculturaland rural communities.The possibili-ties of developing coöperation amongthe Arabs will be dealt with later.Forthe present,it will suffice to quote fromthe report of Mr.C.F.Strickland,³whowas sent by the British Government toexamine the possibilities for developingArab coöperatives:  \nThe Arab cultivator of Palestine is a mansimilar in temperament,standard of lifeand agricultural practices to many of theMuslim cultivators...in the northwestof India.He appears,however,to enjoy aslightly higher percentage of literacy and avery acute intelligence.He may be com-pared favourably in the latter respect withcertain of the peasant classes in SouthernEurope.—Page 1,par.2.  \nThe cultivating methods of the smallArab farmer are as primitive as in themajority of undeveloped countries....His backwardness is due to lack of opportu-nity as well as lack of security in the past,to instability of character and to the load ofdebt which hampers all his operations.一Page 3,par.3.  \nThere will ...be difficulties in or-ganizing any self-governing group amongthe fellahin who are limited in their viewsand for the most part illiterate.On theother hand their illiteracy is less than inmany parts of India,where coöperation hasattained a measure of success...innatural intelligence and in readiness to  \n2 The Jewish population in October 1932 isestimated at 180,000.  \n3Report by Mr.C.F.Strickland of the IndianCivil Service on The Possibility of Introducing aSystem of Agricultural Coöperation in Palestine,1930.Printing and Stationery Office,RussianBuildings,Jerusalem.  \nconsider and accept the coöperative ideawhen placed before him,the Arab appearsto me to stand above the Indian,and inmany cases,also the European peasant....In one respect the Arab has beenfortunate,in that the plan of joint borrow-ing under the title of the“Kafala mutasal-sila”is still generally understood andpracticed;there can be no better introduc-tion to the Raiffeisen system and the co-öperative idea.—Pp.5,6,par.5.  \nAn important,if not the predominanttenet of the Jewish Federation ofLabor—itself organized in a coöpera-tive form,and the mother and promoterof a number of salient coöperativeenterprises—is the establishment of acoöperative social and economic order.In recent years,coöperation has beensuperimposed by Government edict inseveral countries,or has been fosteredby Government","cbCaibPZF417H7UJ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibPZF417H7UJ","pdf",1822682,12,"English","# Area and Population\n# The Coöperative Movement\n# 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