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 depart ment has just recognized the govern ment of ibn saud king of hegaz and sul sultan tan of and divers other tracts of the arabian desert ibn controls the sacred place of mecca i and it seems that moslem pilgrims who 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 came camel drivers in diplomatic circles it I 1 is calculated that our recognition of the h picturesque arab potentate will wit sti the sale of american a automo 0 o 0 biles in the land of the prophet meanwhile the dalal 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 odd monks who constitute the governing caste of the country the story goes that the grand lama pre 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 innola 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 odd monks grind out their infanta eions |