The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-28

members of the cabinet. There was indeed, talk for a time of giving them cabinet rank, but this idea was abondoned-perhaps at their suggestion.
 Rose In Railroad Service
 Dautry is the eldest of the three when not acting as brain truster he is director of the vast State Railways, a job to which he rose from the humblest of beginnings He started, without political influ. ence, at the age of 22 as district engineer after being graduated from the difficut Ecole Polytech' nique in 1902.
 Dapper, small and slender but giving the impression of strength always moving and always busy Daultry is talked of as the most energentic man in France. It Is an ordinary occurrence for hin to work IS hours day, and he is always getting extra jobs to do. For instance, few years ago, when he was shoulder deer in his task of rehabilttating the State Railways, having assumed the dictatorship at a particularly bad time, he was asked as a side- line to reorganize the French Line. While still doing those two jobs he found time, at the gov ernment's request, to revamp en- tirely the commercial air line Aeropostale.
 Holds No Pet Theories
 Anything but a politician, Dau- try indulges in neither pet the- ories nor political expedients, but he is keenly aware that his job in the brain trust comes at an unusually critical time, and he considers that he Is witnessing and perhaps helping to fashion a turning point in Frances econo- mic and even political road.
 Next In seniority is c. J. Gig noux, blonde, blue-eyed, round- faced editor and economist, who looks as grave and calm as Dau- try does jumpy. He had a fling at politics under Premier Flandin as Under Secretary of State for National Economy, but he does not like political office. once he refused an Under Secretaryship of War, offered by the late Andre Maginot, on the ground that he knew nothing about the job.
 Economic Ideas Sound
 Editor of the financial daily La Journee 1ndustrielle," and deeply concerned with national issues, Gignoux nevertheless likes to con- sider himself provincial and q wine grower. He Is an eminently sober if bold economist who leaves fantasy out of his serious work and puts 1t into books based on finance which he loves to write such as "The Life of Baron Louis and "The Office of Dreams" The latter is concerned with the in- tricacies of the Law swindle.
 Gignoux was a brilliant soldier during the war and was wounded and decorated on the battfield. From his war careed he preserved a picturesque argot which some- times startles the captains in in- dustry and finance with whom he comes in contact. But he is bour- geois despite his language and greatly interested in his ancestral wine fields near Lyons. A bril- liant scholar, he was educated at the law school near Nancy and at Bordeaux before beginning his career at the Ministry of Com merce.
 Evolves Economic Law
 Youngest and least known to the general public is Rueff whom Washington remembers as & re- suit of his mission there with der 70. Rueff is balder, more thick set and stockier than his two colleagues, more of fancial theorist and perhaps more of a scholar. He is author of the Ruefi law, which all economists know and argue over. It is a law estab- fishing rigid relationship be- tween price levels, salary levels and the number of unemployed Rueff stated his law in 1924. and despite widespread criticism since his predictions have been no lest than 97 per cent accurate.
 Like Dautry, Rueft is q gradu. ate of the Ecole Polytechnique He is inspector of finance at the Finance Ministry one of thu highest posts in the cicii service He is q staunch defender of eco. homie liberalism and his economic solutions arc always made witt this liberalism in mind. Politici ans profoundly respect him bu, sometimes suggest, perhaps char, acteristically. that he forgets tn, political side of government tot