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Show AUTO WINS ITS WAY IN EASTERN LANDS The automobile has recently made two more conquests in out-of-the-way parts of the world. Our State department depart-ment has just recognized the government govern-ment of Ibn Saud, king of Hejaz and sultan of Nejd and divers other tracts of the Arabian desert. Ibn controls the sacred place of Mecca, and it seems that Moslem pilgrims who formerly for-merly journey thither by caravan now prefer to - travel by auto bus, much to the scandal of the holy men and the discomfiture of the camel drivers. In diplomatic circles it is calculated that our recognition of the picturesque Arab potentate will stimulate stim-ulate the sale of American automobiles automo-biles in the land of the prophet. Meanwhile the dalai lama, head of the monastic hierarchy that rules Tibet, has ordered a "devil wagon" from India for his private and royal use, all of which is in defiance of the 15,000-odd monks who constitute the governing caste of the country. The story goes that the grand lama previously pre-viously owned another car, but the other priests objected so vigorously to it that he soon locked it up in a mule stall in the monastery, where it succumbed to the ravages of rust. The magnitude of such an innovation innova-tion may be understood when one realizes that the machine age in Tibet has largely been limited to the prayer wheels in which the 15,000-odd 15,000-odd monks grind out their incantations. |