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Fanning the growing rift between Merriam and conservative Republicans, right-wing author and playwright Charles Gilman Norris penned letters that became widely circulated thanks to Hearst's newspaper empire, complaining of Merriam's reforms.

" he minute the proposed State Income Tax becomes law, my wife, Kathleen Norris, and myself will put both our homes —- the one in Palo Alto and our ranch near Saratoga —- up for sale and move out of the State.

There is no alternative for us.

We pay 52 % of our income now to the Federal Government at Washington and under the proposed State Income Tax Law, we shall have to pay an additional 18 %, so that out of every dollar we earn from our writings, 70 ¢ will go out in taxes!