Arizona republican., 1911-05-22
PROFESSIONAL MEN
AND MEXICAN WAR
How Press Agents For Public Char
acters Improve Their o.
portunities.

Many Phoenix people will remem-
Der Ernest Gamble of the Ernest
Gamble Concert company which has
appeared in Phoenix from time to
time in recent years Mr. Gamble is a
singer of no ordinary accomplish
ments and as a professional he is not
adverse to advertising. The following
story which appeared in the Pitts
burg Gazette Times recently gives
him measure of it. along with 9TH
ers and it is written in a humorous
vein by one of the many newspa per
men who are capitalizing the Mex
lean war for their funn" columns.
Mr.. Candles connection with the
story is based on the fact that he re-
Gently appeared with his company in
Aqua Prieta, il is understood. just
before the war. In any event he got
out again all right Here is the Pitts
burg funny mans version:
'All the eXDedients which in the
past have served to win renown are
rendered obsolete by the opportunities
afforded by the Mexican revolution.
II is only necessary to cross the Dor
der and get yourself captured, either
troops, to win immediate fame Not
long ago Jack London was clapped
into prison as a suspect, and now
Ernest Gamble, the intrepid basso, has
trod the same thorny path to ceIeb-
rity.
He was arrested as a spy when
caught in the act of taking picture
OF an old church, the flat roof of
which was fortified with sandbags
and crowded with barefooted and tat
tered Mexican federal troops ready to
repel the expected attack of the in
Surrectos.
BY what means he secured his re-
lease. whether by the potency Of his
song or the persuasion of his smile,
the reports fail to inform us. Per
haps some Of his martial ballads i'm
pressed his captors so profoundly with
his prowess that they were glad to
declare a truce and let him go This
is well. for we could not have spared
Mr.. Candles voice-not if the whole
Mexican hacienda goes to smash.
AT the same time comes news that
there are fifteen Yankees. captured at
the battle of Casas Grandes, who are
to be shot by troops of DiaZ. Their
names are not given. but a tentative
list has been made un by q process
OF elimination. 1t includes Upton Sin
clair. Richard Harding Davis. David
Bispman. Horace Fletcher. Nat Good
win. Albert J. Beveridge Gilbert Hub
bard, Walter Wellman Charley Ross.
James ]. Jeffries, DR. Cook, r. p
Hobson. Edward Box, John Drew and
POulteney BigeloW none Of whom
have been heard of for several days
II might go hard with some of them.
having neither a puissant voice nor
winning smile. to procure their free
dom. as Mr. Gamble had. However.
no one would go so far as to suggest
that the army was modified OF their
account, or that Uncle Sam should
take martial measures to rescue them.
1t would be unkind To say that we
could do without several of them,
besides. there's no use in putting
Mexico wise.
SO long as the situation remains
as il is. no one need worry if rel
ative disappears. nor need the public
feel any concern if some well-known
parsonage drops out of sight. They
have only been captured by DiaZ or
Madero. In a few DAYS they will re-
appear. and then their new books will
be published. or their voices will be
better than ever. We can point to
Jack London and Ernest Gamble in
proof hereof"