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$ Texas Jewish Post $
Volume VI - No. 14
Thursday, April 3, 1952
Dallas Section
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Plain Talk
HIAS Honors Senator Benton
BY ALFRED SEGAL
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CANTOR AND WITHERINGTON
} ton discovered the material disad-
®U1 Hilld, (Hillel Widget V£mtage Gf being Weinstock, Wein-
Corp.), feeling the need for a bit of j stejn> Weinberg, or what have you.
self-expression, which lie doesn t find j jq0(. jje shouldn’t have known
in widgets, called on me to tell me tj1e spiritual values in being Jewish.
This was the unfailing teaching of
his father.
“When he was 16 he said, “Pa, why
do we have to carry a name so Jew-
ish. Let’s make it something else.”
“His father replied, what’s a name?
The main thing was to have a good
character, as the Jewish teaching
said. That’s all there’s to it.
“The boy never did get his father’s
lesson. In college he was a frustrated
student. The boys who didn’t have
such names to bear as Weinstock,
Weinberg or Weinstein were in the
best fraternities. He was an outsider
in the world.
“His father told me of a sonorous
lecture he gave the boy on this. The
old man proudly had saved his every
word of that speech: ‘And what if,
on account of your name, you can’t
“Early in his life young Withering- | his own worried pattern. Betty said,
about a gentleman named Withering-
ton.
What got him to musing on Mr.
Witherington’s case was a matter
that had to do with the name and
fame of Eddie Cantor.
^ “1 liked the way Eddie Cantor as-
serted his Jewishness from coast to
coast recently,” Mr. Hillel began. “I
mean the occasion when he was the
central figure at a big party for the
sake of Israel bonds.
“It didn’t matter at all to Mr. Can-
tor that his radio audience might
discover that he is Jewish and what
that might mean to his national
popularity. And what if some bum
thus came to know that Eddie Can-
tor is a Jew. Eddie Cantor could
•well know that his character raised
liim far above the malice of bums.
“Eddie Cantor was being Jewish
not only in his character but also
in his public identity. And that brings
me to Mr. Witherington.”
‘For the sake of our children we
should be thinking of some other
name ... I have it . . . We’ll be
Witherington.’ ”
Here Mr. Hillel parenthesized:
“Mind you I don’t quarrel with any-
body for changing his name. To me
Witherington is as good as Weinstock,
Weinberg or Weinstein. A name is
only a label; the quality of the goods
under the label is what matters.”
“As Witherington they went places,
finally came to live in a neighbor-
hood that was called restricted by
gentlemen’s agreement. Betty never
gave up praising her wisdom in
changing the family name over to
Witherington. They became rich and
prominent.
“The Episcopal Church of the
neighborhool invited them. The
Witheringtons never had had any
religious affiliations, didn’t care much
for religious consolation, anyway, but,
then, the church looked like next
step toward belonging to the very
get into the best fraternity? You al- exclusive Shamdale Country Club. So
ready belong to a bigger and much j they joined the church, though Mr.
better fraternity. It is the fraternity Witherington had his qualms and felt
of the people who came from Sinai comforted to think that his father
*Whos Witherington? I asked. ancj heard the voice of God and was dead and couldn’t see this.’
“Never heard of him.
"Let’s be charitable by concealing
him under the name of Witherington.
If you went back far enough in his
life you would discover he was born
Weinstein, Weinberg or Weinstock,
or something like that. I knew his
old father, God rest his good soul.
brought the Ten Commandments
along with them from there. You
are a member of the greatest fra-
ternity just to be a rightacting, right- 1
thinking Jew.’
“ ‘But where will that get me?’ the
boy snapped. He was that fresh.
“He settled the whole thing to his <
own satisfaction after he was married.
His bride Betty was a soul-mate of
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Wisch, J. A. Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 3, 1952, newspaper, April 3, 1952; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth753619/m1/6/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .