25 Jun 1934
John Griffin to Father / Washington D.C.
Dear Dad,
It surely seems like one can never have his cake and eat it. When you get a break it is always necessary to give something else up anyway so it seems with me.
I have been trying for the last year to get another job back here. The one I had was a blind alley affair. I had been there two and a half years and never a bit of advancement and all of my friends getting raises etc. So I decided to get out. I took several exams for other jobs, and it seemed that I just couldn't get anything as long as I had a job of any kind. However, last Monday morning they called me and offered me a job in the Home Owners s Loan Corporation, It was at an increased salary, and the chances for advancement there are very good so I just felt like I could not turn it down. So tomorrow I go to work there and of course that means no vacation this summer and that will mean no trip home. It is hard to take as I had been counting on it so much, and for so long, This will make the third summer without a real vacation. Anyway I figure it is worth giving up most anything for and I am mighty glad to get it. Mother will come home with Roy Ross one of our friends here, who is leaving about the first of July. He has a new Plymouth, and so she should have a good trip home. We will take care of the expense so don't worry about anything.
I surely wish that you could come back here for a trip sometime. Why not in August. Roy will be coming back about the lot of August and that would be a good chance is get away and see a few sights. It would do you a world of good to see new sights and new people and how they do things in different parts of the country. We are going to start planning right now to cone home next summer, and if you can't figure out a way to come out this year we want you to start planning on at for next year.
We took mother to the ocean for the week end she seemed to enjoy it so much. I suppose she has written you all about it as she spent most of her time writing. Dot and I got a sun burn that you could fry eggs on, and boy we surely have to walk straight, and keep all strayslaps off our backs. It was a lot of fun though and well worth the suffering.
Mother had been well and seems to be enjoying herself a lot. We have shown her all the sights around here, and she is kept quite busy by friends she knows back here. It has been quite warm but we have been on the go so mush that we have not had time to notice it. I hope that, you have had some more rain out there and that things look better. It is too bad that you haven't a lot of wheat this year because before long they will be paying a big price for wheat. I think too that they will be paying a big price for most al1 the farm products this fall so hang on to them and you'll make money.
Mother will probably be home about the 4th, or 5th, as Roy expects to do it as quickly as possible. We surely wish that we were coming too, but we will start counting the days until next year and in the mean time try and figure out some way to get out here yourself. If you come out with Roy I am sure that we can find some way for you to get home.
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