Show a HERE Is no unemployment in the hawaiian islands instead their citizens ot all ages are busy sending a flood 0 gold la tha form ot hawaiian pineapple all over the united states and also to many far distant lands there Is romance in the story ot how these semitropical islands happen to ba ona 0 tha busiest parts ot our country at this time when unemployment Is BO widespread it Is tho romance ot how the thought ot one man greatly enlarged the whole economic aspect ot these islands which wo acro once so reluctant to annex for our government was far from cordial to the idea ot recell ng hawaii under its flag bacic in 1895 when an annexation treaty was first negotiated with president harrlson this was withdrawn by president cleveland in april 0 that year but brought up again after president election and hawaii was not finally admitted into the union until july there was good reason for this reluctance just for tho sake ot acquiring a pacific naval this country did not want to assume tha financial liability which these islands deemed likely to prove As late as its edition the encyclopedia americana stated that tha danger ot depending upon a single crop sugar has long beeh recognized and persistent efforts have beba made to develop minor indus tries in 1 i one man did it to understand how hawaii developed a second important crop which goes out as a flood ot golden pineapple and forms one of the two great industries of the hawaiian islands it is necessary to go back thirty years to the beginning ot tha career ot ona james D dole it was in 1899 that this man just graduated from harvard set out tor the hawaiian islands from a suburb of boston cnown as jamaica plata ho went there to grow coffee he knew nothing about pineapple culture neither did ho know anything about canning cut after various experiments peri ments ho went back to boston to get an expert canner and raise some capital and ho succeeded in both attempts after that the pineapple business began to prosper the company which he formed packed 1853 cases ot pineapple in 1903 cases in 1904 in 1903 and more than in 1907 its pack grew to cases in 1912 in 1918 in 1923 la and from 3 cases in 1929 it grew to mora than last year once this man had demonstrated that alno apples could ba profitably grown in hawaii be naturally had competitors there are now nine ahlet growers who packed a total of about II cases last year nearly all of which wera chipped to tho united states and bad a kalua ot 00 00 0 o thero ts no kia 1 son for more in edite ot tills vastly increased production alia i ot pineapples in the united states amounts to only a trifle more than two pineapples per capita a year so there is room for even greater production it it can be brought about but all of tl a good pineapple land in hawaii Is now taken and when the island of aanal recently bought and developed into a hugo pineapple plantation by doles company la brought to full production that will ba about all the pineapple that hawaii can supply the story of the acquisition ot this island of lenat Is a whole romance in itself back in 1922 dole was facing the problem of the need ot moro land tor the growing of pineapples it was estimated at that time that there were only about acres in the islands adapted to pine culture 01 these hla company then conj of matured aln capias mady to biz strolled trolled about acres but he rightly believed the demand tor canned pineapple would in a few years exceed the capacity ot tha industry a entire acreage so he sent men into the philippines and down into mexico and investigated fiji san domingo malaya and even queensland australia before coming back to the hawaiian eslanda and buying tor 1100 aanal considered up to that time a hopelessly barren island beaten ten months in the year by northeast winds beneath tho blasts 0 which the scattering trees on it were permanently boyed there was no harbor then no roads no towns no labor and much 0 the good soil was covered with enormous cactus but the soli tested well and the climate was propitious the altitude average and natural drainage were about right dola solved tha problem ot fighting the obstinate cactus by hitching a cable chain to heavy tractors and literally dragging the dense growth down he bet dole was willing to bet 5 that his judgment la buying aanal was right and that he was right Is proved by the tact that the yield ot aanal pineapples Is today nearly equal to the combined yield ot all the rest ot his plantations but all this was not accomplished without a struggle by cutting away the cliffs on one side running a heavy breakwater out into the ocean on the other and then dredging he created the harbor ot at a cost of he built a road tor heavy trucking seven miles back and 1 COO feet up into the island along which five ton white trucks hauling ten ton trailers now travel each carrying in all a net load ot twenty three and a halt tons ot tault at the harbor these are hoisted in eleven and a halt ton lots onto barges which are towed to honolulu some fifty miles away and this was not all he brought water across tho mountain range on the windward side ot the island to the reservoir near the town ot aanal city which stands today a model community 0 its kind its population now consists ot 3 orientals orient als and thirty two whites and it boasts its own bank stores schools a hospital a buddhist temple and even movies and a mayor there Is no unemployment on tho islands ot aanal and neither there any contract labor tho picker who wants to quit his job can draw his weeks wages from 14 up to aa much as 23 and his transportation back to whence he came the labor Is a polyglot lot chinese and Ha even some russians and portuguese live tranquilly in a community which Is tree from race problems largely because ot thorough intermarriage A battery ot machines known as ganacas gl removes the pineapples skin and punches out its core in a single swift operation a set ot knives cuts the skinned and cored cylinders into uniform slices and in a few seconds from the time the pineapple enters the gunaca machine it Is skinned cored sliced and ready tor grading and canning speed Is the essence ot proper pineapple can nang the quicker you can get this luscious fruit out 0 its jacket and into the can the better something more than food Is by this celerity it Is the only way to preserve tho elusive flavor ot the fully fruit still a pa cr this matter ot grading Is dolo eints the housewife to enow exactly wept sho Is buying la his cans so ho a am of katip ing the numbers one or two or three together with bis name la the tops of the cans this Is a pioneer procedure which will undoubtedly effend to other canned products in fhe course of time when the housewife uses fresh fruit she can look at it and see its condition when she uses canned fruit she has to depend on the labels to tell truthfully what quality of fruit is inside the cans of pineapple with one stamped in their tops contain the best fruit in appearance texture syrup and color those stamped two contain fruit just as fine but not quite so shapely and packed in syrup slightly less sweet and those stamped three contain good wholesome fruit packed in the same syrup as two but slices that have been broken so that they cannot be included in the first two grades these first two grades are both packed in sliced crushed and tidbit forms but the third Is packed only in broken slices real food value a this large production of pineapple a real contribution to our diet in food value as well as in taste T according to scientists it Is there are better sources of a single vitamin says a bulletin of the university of hawaii but as an all around source of vitamins the canned pineapple takes an unusually high place no other canned product except tomatoes la as rich in vitamins but the fruit has to be bandied right there IB a marked difference in its sugar content depending upon whether it has been allowed to ripen on the plants or Is picked tor shipment after it has reached its full size but has not yet ripened analysis shows according to this same authority an average of 12 06 of sugar in the naturally ripened fruit against 3 66 in that picked green and allowed to ripen oft the plant aal a matter of universal practice among hawaiian the fruit Is allowed to ripen in the field the sugar content of pineapple Is ot a cypa which Is ready tor human assimilation according to dr A I 1 dean director of the experiment station of the university of hawaii and pineapple baa a higher food value than most fruits largely because of its high sugar content and its vitamins rich in calorick cs the analysis of pineapple contained in the following table was niada on a composite sample of both fruit and syrup made by commuting and mixing the contents of six cans of fancy sliced pineapple taken at random from the pack of six different canneries moisture total sugars 22 30 sucrose reducing sugars 12 31 protein crude fiber 0 30 mineral matter ash adds calculated as citric add it R be seen from the above tha bulletin states that the food value of canned pineapple aa measured by calories contained in it 13 by no means negligible so james D dole whose name la indissolubly connected with the pineapple industry in hawaii both 03 pioneer and developer not only turned a possible liability into a proved asset but this industry Is making a distinct contribution to our national diet in a form that Is both nutritious and popular and that Is why there Is no me at p besent in those tar flung lalard |