Show AUTO WINS ITS WAY IN EASTERN LANDS the automobile has recently made two more con conquests guests in out of the way parts of the world our state department has just recognized the government of ibn saud kin king of henaz and sultan of and divers other tracts of the arabian desert ibn controls the sacred place of mecca and it seems that moslem pilgrims who formerly journey thither by caravan now prefer to travel by auto bus much to the scandal of the holy men a and nd the discomfiture of the camel drivers in diplomatic circles it Is calculated that our recognition rec of tho the picturesque arab potentate will stimulate the sale of american automobiles in the land of the prophet meanwhile the dalal 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 odd monks who constitute the governing caste of the country the story goes that the grand lama previously 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 may be understood when one realizes that the machine age in tibet has largely been limited to the prayer wheels in which the odd monks grind out their incantations |