Evening star., 1950-04-02
Frank Pace Takes New Slant at Budget
Has Often Pointed
Out Thot MilitoY
Gets Lion's'Shure

preparations for one If it comes,
This same trend of thinking
should stand him in good stead
wien he approaches the Budget
Bureau with outstretched hand.
"A Federal budget" Mr.. Pace
said recently. lis no longer purely
an economic document. 1t is not
a statement of progress as. for
instance. a budget for a business
Or a budget for an individual is a
statement Of progress. It is a
statement of international and
national security commitments
commitments to pay obligations
incurred by reason of past wars
and commitments that are made
in the domestic field"
Mr.. Pace also left the military
a loophole in another recent quote
in which he discussed budget
balancing:
Practiced Law
81 am old-tashioned enough to
believe q balanced Federal budget
is prudent financial goal. I am
in favor of taking every positive
constructive measure in our power
to reach that goal. Yet, I am old
fashioned enough to believe there
is a fundamental honesty and vir-
tue in facing facts squarely. You
cannot balance the budget by
wishful thinking: you can only
balance it by making realistic
financial plans which recognize
our national obligations in today's
world"
Mr.. Pace is 6 feet l inch in
height, weighs ITS pounds. He
has black hair and twinkling
eyes. He is the son of Frank Pace
ST., prominent Little Rock attor-
ney and onetime law partner OF
the famed Arkansas Governor and
Senator, jeff Davis.
The rugged son of mountain
pioneers finished high school at
IA. After finishing law school in
1886. he served six years in a sort
of apprenticeship-in the district
attorneys office. in the State Rev.
enue Department and in private
law practice with his father. He
spent four years in uniform.
It has been said that the new
Army Secretary knows every per-
son in Washington claiming Ar
kansas as his home OF birthplace.
He likes people and people like
him. He makes friends easily,
often influential friends, like
Secretary of the Treasury John
Snyder, Presidential Assistant
John r. Steelman and Presidential
Confidant Les Biffle, to name a
few who happen to come from the
Ozark country.
Puts in Long Hours
But at the Budget Bureau he's
had to virtually give up making
new friends, for his hours of work
have averaged some 10 per week.
Now he plays squash at lunch
time at the University Club three
or four times a week for exercise
during the winter. and tennis in
the summer.
Before ! entered the Army
used to play a great deal of golf
and if I do say so myself. ! played
| a right respectable game-but I
found when I came to the Budget
Bureau that it just didn't leave
me any time at all with my fam
ily," he say. II used to shoot
around 10 to 49,"
Then. as his face lighted up
with a proud smile:
You know, I have two little
girls, aged and 4. Paula and
Priscilla-there's nothing like girls,
don't you think?"
Mr.. Pace is married to the for
mer Miss Margaret Janney of
Philadelphia. He met her while
at Princeton.
He's never smoked in his life,
but takes an occasional social
drink.
Scotch and soda?
"Oh, no." came the reply in the
fat Arkansas accent. bourbon
and branch water. Of course"