"Horribly Unhealthy"

The diner-out who elbows his way to a restaurant chair in Washington has learned to eat his food either 1) in optimistic haste, or 2) with queasy care. Reason: the insect world and slovenly workers are fighting a winning battle against laxly enforced sanitation laws and overworked health inspectors.

In the past 14 months, some 1,000 Washington restaurants, groceries and delicatessens were accused of violating sanitation laws. A few unruffled owners have been arrested as many as five times. But paying a fine or forfeiting bail (usually $25) has been easier than cleaning the place up.

Last week one of the big Government-building cafeterias (the Bureau of Printing & Engraving) was denounced as "horribly unhealthy." Specific gripes in the complaint of the United Federal Workers of America (C.I.O.): a mouse in the soup container, worms cooked in greens, a caterpillar in the gingerbread, chewing gum on a pie plate, fish scales in the soup, improperly washed china.

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