The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-08-14
NEW AUSTRIAN EMPEROR
HAS PRESS AGENT AND
RECEIVES
Objects TO Being Alb
sorbed by Kaiserland
First Governess and Irish Girl
Named Bridget Cary Started
Him on Novel Road for a Haps-
burg Prince.
(By Karl II. Won Wiegand,
international News Service)

international News Service)
NEW YORK, Aug 14-Emperor
Charles Francis, the young ruler of
Austria-Hungary, is setting the pace
for peace in the Central Empires.
Ever since the Russian revolution he
has taken the reins in hand for sep
arate or general peace, and Germany
has been compelled to follow. The
centre of negotiations with Russia has
been Vienna, not Berlin, as generally
supposed. He has shown and is con-
tinuing to show an independence of
Berlin in putting his own views
through what has been rather sur
prising to the Germans.
Raised and educated in somewhat
different circumstances from the
usual bringing up of heirs to great
thrones, his first governess an Irish
girl, Bridget Cary, his first tutor a
young student who was an orphan,
young Charles is quite progressive
and modern in many of his views.
He uses up to date methods. He has
an eye to popularity, an ambition to
be a successful ruler, and believes in
iudicious publicity" To show that
he has learned few things, it can
be said that he is the only ruler in
the world-mOnarchial of republican
who has an officially designated
press agent attached to his person
al suite.
Charles believes in letting the Aus
trians, the Hungarians and the ten
other nationalities which make up
his empire know what he is doing.
He also believes in knowing what
they are doing, thinking, saying, and
what they want.
For this purpose he has attached to
his personal suite publicity agent"
in the person of Captain Workman, q
young company commander whom he
met on the Italian front and to whom
he took a fancy. Workman was edu-
Gated and trained for the army, but
resigned as lieutenant to become a
newspaper man. He Joined the staff
of the die Zelt" (The Times), of
Vienna, on which he worked for sew
eral years. At the outbreak of the
war Workman, as an officer of the
reserves, rejoined the army. He was
given a company and fought through
several campaigns.
Very soon after succeeding to the
throne, the young Emperor decided
that he must get into closer contact
with his peoples. Very wisely he
came to the conclusion the best and
only way to do that, would be
through the press of his countries, or
rather of his several countries; and,
in order to accomplish that, have
some one who was or had been a
newspaperman and who knew both
the press and the people.
Emperor Charles has done a num-
ber of things wholly unexpected and
some rather startling to his peoples.
This penchant for sudden decisions
and immediate action has earned for
him the sobriquet of "Karl der Ploetz-
liche" or Charles the Sudden"
The young Emperor sent for Work
q man, who was at the Italian front,
: and explained his idea to him. He
q attached the newspaperman to his
y personal suite with the official title
4 of "Press Adjutant" or "Press Aide
: | de-camp."
e Captain Workman reports directly
to the Emperor himself He ac-
p companies Charles wherever he goes,
q There is always a special train with
e steam up, ready for the Emperor at
4 all hours. When the Emperor goes
h to the front in an automibile, his
q press aide-de-camp" either is in the
car with him or in the car immedi-
n dtIly DtHllu lildJ VI tic gOunB Eli
: peror. During a trip to the front
70 this Spring, the second motorcar, in
II which was Workman went into the
! ditch. The "press aide-de-camp" sus-
tanned fracture of two ribs.
81 Captain Workman is the direct link
~ or intermediary between the Emperor
: and the Austrian Hungarian news
papermen. He accompanies the EN-
~ peror everywhere, gives out to the
- press such official communications
~ as are to be published, and, aside
from that, tells the newspapermer
!, many little interesting details and in
~ cidents about the Emperor's doings
u which bring the personality, aims ans
activity of the latter closer to hi
people.
The press aide-de-camp" make
q daily reports to the Emperor upol
the press utterances not only in Aus
tria-Hungary, but in Germany and il
oy the foreign press so far as they hav
ne bearing upon the Dual Monarchy
o. There is department in the Min
az istry of War which reads and clip
" all newspapers. An Emperor, like
w President of the United States, is to
ne busy a man to read the entire pres
e of the world. The clipping depar,
IN ment of the Ministry of War sends a
us clippings to the Emperor's pres
w. = -
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