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Show Hawaii ; . . Land of Plenty Which Sweetens Your Coffee B"nen you tiinfc o 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 creattt a $200,000,000 commerce between Hawaii and the rest of the nation. These photos give you a better idea of the commercial side of our island wssession. Awl 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 high-juice content types of cane. The experimental station has a large staff which helps spend $500,000 annually. ?SrwA'Fni"T2s1 V'-'.! J;J 1 iff ; v( Jv? 'iCC - SWEETNESS IN THE RAW . . . Scene at one of the Hawaiian plants where juice is extracted from sugar cane, boiled and evaporated evap-orated to make raw sitgar.' These tanks are the juice boilers. WJ ' Jt'UM'J'j3 ftl 'lit ' ' "i' ' J B&Afe : ' .'..'ihw.T.v.-. afliSSBBniMiw .uju ww y u u . ...... SHIPPING "WHITE GOLD" . ..A California freighter is being be-ing loaded with ratv sugar at Honolulu for shipment to the mainland. main-land. The sugar is processed in 17. 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 the Souza family of Waialua plantation is celebrating the end of a successful harvest. Note the modern home supplied rent-free to plantation workers. The beautiful black sand beach at Kalapana, one of America's most startling scc"tf wonders. The sand is as clean as coraL |