2. Advertisement in support of Oregon Compulsory Education Bill, 1922

This paid advertisement in support of the Oregon Compulsory Education Bill appeared in many newspapers across the state in the weeks prior to the 1922 general election. The bill, which appeared on the ballot as an initiative, required all parents and guardians in the state to send their children between the ages of eight and sixteen to public school. Members of the Scottish Rite Masonic Order, a national fraternal organization, initiated the measure, although some historians suggest that the bill’s true architect was the Ku Klux Klan, which viewed the initiative as an early step in a national campaign.