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Show QUESTION 8F RECLAMATION IN FOREFRONT I TJ. S. Chamber of Commerce Planning to Improve All Idle Lands CHICAGO. 111., Jan. 9 An Intensive Inten-sive study of Ihe whole subject of the reclamation of waste areas was begun here today by a special committee appointed ap-pointed by Ihe Chamber Of Commerce of the United States. E. T. Meredith, of De.s Moines. Ia.. Is chairman of the committee, which proposes to work out a national plan for the reclamation of idle lands by irrigation, drainage dlkeage and other methods The committee will go Into social, political and economic mestions. m-c-litdlng the practicability of this method of providing lands for war vet-era vet-era us -on |