The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-20
GRAND OLD MAN OF QUAKER CHURCH
 WILL PRESIDE

Richmond, Ind, July 2O-When Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends the largest body of Quakers in the world, celebrates the one hundredth anniversary of it's founding here on August 15, Timothy Nicholson, inter nationally known as the grand old man" of the Quaker church, will pre- side.
 Ninety-two years old, MT. Nichol- son is still as vigorously advocating social reforms as he did when he be- gan his career 70 years ago.
 For S4 years he was presiding and during his regime it grew in numbers and influence until today it ranks in importance with the London, England. Yearly Meeting. He was also the organizer of the Five Years Meeting of Friends, with which all most every yearly meeting in Amer ica is affiliated
 MT. Nicholson firmly believes he will see the day oe universal disarm- ament and international peace before he is lat6 to rest in the Friends cem- etery here.
 Universal peace will be the great est accomplishment since Jesus Christ 1 lived and His disciples preached His word" he declared today. "But nev- CT shall we have it until the profess ing Christians accept the basis of Christian faith and stay there." MT. Nicholson has been president
 of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League since its organization, and league leaders say he will hold the post un-
 til his death He has been an avow- ed opponent of the liquor traffic since his early youth. His first re- form efforts culrninated in the clos ing of several grog shops in North | ed dry by statutory legislation, MT. i Nicholson said he had hardly hoped
 to live to see that day. He feels sure
 that international prohibition will 1 come soon.
 Early becoming interested in pris- | on reform, MT. Nicholson succeeded
 in having the Indiana General Assem-
 ply pass laws putting the correctional
 institutions of the state on a high level. Last year the Imperial Com mission of India which was in Amer
 1ca studying prison methods, compli-
 mented him for his long work in
 connection, with this problem. He | brought about the establishment of the Indiana Prison for Women and
 the Reform School for Girls. He was president of the National Conference | of Charities and Corrections at it's | meeting in Detroit 19 years ago. The | National Conference of Social Work
 at it's meeting in Milwaukee in June | sent him an affectionate greeting He | served on the Indiana Board of Char i ities from 1887 to 1908 when he with ! drew voluntarily.
 | Patience, says MT. Nicholson. ie
 one of the prime requisites for the at l tainment of a reform
 | If you keep your mind on the ideal | there's very little chance of you los
 ing it, he said ''The trouble with
 the long prohibition campaign in this
 country was that too much was want
 ed at once. It is impossible to take
 a moral question out of the jaws of politics in one effort In the more
 than seventy years of my career, ] would take a half a. loaf if r co,,1d
 not get a whole loaf"
 Although he does not wear the old
 regulation attire of the Quaker
 broad or1mmed beaver hat and shad I be1lied coat-Mr. Nicholson has no+ departed from the manner of speecr
 Of the Quakers and still uses 'thee' and thou and prefers to be called
 Timothy Nicholson rather than "Mr' | Mich olSon @h