ABSTRACT
The membership at Sunrise was almost exclusively Jewish, being the principal difference from New Llano. The Sunrise colony and New Llano differ most, perhaps, in the degree of co-operation practised. The Sunrise colony also supports our surmise that purely rationalistic theories as the main basis of a co-operative community are apt to produce internal dissensions. This seems to be so, no matter how great the degree of co-operation practised. With free discussion encouraged, the eradication of many economic difficulties is apparently supplanted by intensified intellectual friction. The thirty-five children, of whom the youngest was four years old, were supervised by college-trained teachers, members of the community. The short life of the experiment makes a general evaluation difficult. Its term was too brief for the achievement of significant results. The colony achieved remarkable results in stock-breeding and at the Saginaw County Fair of 1935 won 15 ribbons as well as money prizes totalling $150.
