Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 11, Number 7, DeMotte, Jasper County, 2 January 1941 — Hawaii... Land of Plenty Which Sweetens Your Coffee [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Hawaii... Land of Plenty Which Sweetens Your Coffee

When you think of Hawaii you are more than likely to think of Hula girls and guitars and to forget that Hawaii is responsible for a large quantity of the sugar with which America sweetens its coffee. The sugar industry helps create a $200,009,000 commerce between Hawaii and the rest of the nation. These photos give you a better idea of the commercial side of our island possession in the Pacific.

SUGAR DADDY . . . J. P. Martin , scientist at the Hawaiian sugar planters experimental station in Honolulu, shown injecting liquid food into sugar cane to test growth , and develop new high-juice content types of cane. The experimental station has a large staff which helps spend $500,000 annually to keep America’s sugar industry progressing.

SWEEIiSESS lIS THE RAW Scene at one of the Hawaiian ilants where juice is extracted from sugar cane, boiled and evaporated > make rate sugar. The tanks you see here are the juice boilers.

SHIPPING “WHITE GOLD” ... A California freighter is being loaded with raw sugar at Honolulu for shipment to the mainland. The sugar is processed in V. S. refineries and thereafter appears on the tables of Mr. and Mrs. America.

SUGAR HARVEST FESTIVAL .. . After the sugar crop has been gathered in Hawaii, plantation families celebrate with native feasts and reunions. Here thie Souza family of W'aialua plantation is celebrating the end of a successful harvest. ISote the modern home supplied rentfree to plantation workers.

The beautiful black sand beach at Kalapana, one of America’s most startling scenic wonders. The black grains of sand are as clean as coral .