Show I AXTON REPORTS REPORT ON INSPECTION I I Interest of Civil Life Pastors Pastors pastors Pas- Pas tors Held Beneficial I i W WASHINGTON ASHI March 2 Army Army j i I posts are barometers of the social life j i I of communities near which they lie and Inspection of ot more than two score I Western posts shows that the morals I of officers and soldiers rs Is improving I steadily Colonel J. J X T T. Axton chief of chaplains of ot the army reported to today today today to- to day on his return to to- Washington from froman an inspection trip Clergy of the communities about the posts are cooperating with the army chaplains Colonel Axton said and spiritual results of ot a few years ago are being accomplished by such united ministerial efforts I But the most noteworthy change In the moral program of ot the army i ithe the chief chaplain added Is the ac active active ac- ac 1 tive and whole hearted cooperation of the commanding officers rs with chap chap- chapi i lains There is a deeper and better appreciation of ot the importance of re religious re- re i work among soldiers and of the high place which spiritual influence has in the development of character Colonel Axton said he observed much anxiety throughout the army centers he visited due to the discussion in Washington for further radical reductions reductions reductions of the army The only marring cloud on the otherwise otherwise otherwise oth oth- cheering horizon he said of his trip was the very depressing effect of the prospect of ot such a radical re reduction reduction reduction re- re in the size of the army as will diminish its efficiency |