Inaugural Parties

Reading the social columns in The Times reflecting on the heavy demand for inaugural tickets for the various social parties in Washington and the tremendous costs going into that extravaganza, it comes to mind that, perhaps, the obscenity of the whole thing is a real disgrace on American culture.

With hundreds of thousands of people starving to death, with famine in more countries in the world than there are states in the United States, one has to wonder what possesses a people to honor money more than people--and that’s exactly what an inaugural social event has become.

I just feel that money spent to relieve pain and suffering would be the most meaningful gift President Reagan would want to give--rather than have Frank Sinatra and friends put on a party that will only enhance the ill feelings so many nations already have toward us.

HENRY N. EHRLICH

Los Angeles