10 Dec 1936
John Griffin to Mother / Washington D.C.
It seems that people have more money this year than ever before and they are surely spending it. The downtown stores are up about 10% over last year and they were above the peak of 1929 last year. This town is the sales of the downtown stores are up about 10% over last year and they were above the peak of 1929 last year.
This town is the ideal place in the United States to go into business and I would surely like to get started in something myself. I've got to decide in the very near future whether I want to stay in Washington D.C. the rest of my life, or at least make it my home for a number of years, or whether I am going to go west or somewhere else and try to get started on my own. Things are bringing this issue to a head very shortly and I don't know what to decide. There are arguments both ways and I guess I feel in a very small way what the king of England must have felt these last few days. If we are going to stay in Washington the rest of our lives we are very foolish to go on paying rent the way we are now. We should get busy and build a home and pay the rent that we are paying now, on it. I wish that there were some mathematical formula to solve such problems but I guess there is not.
Elsie is still working hard. She is going to start a better school after the new year. It is much more expensive but is really a much better school. She seems to be well liked down where she is working now, and though she is not making much she is getting local experience and that counts a lot when it comes go getting another job, and though she is not making much she is getting local experience.
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