Edited sentence: (excerpt)"'Alexander's Ragtime Band" is a public menace.A newspaper clipping found in Berlin's scrapbook included an article titled, "Calls Ragtime Insanity Sign":.He also stated that 90 percent of the inmates of the American asylums he has visited are abnormally fond of ragtime.He says, 'Hysteria is the form of insanity that an abnormal love for ragtime seems to produce.It is as much a mental disease as acute mania—it has the same symptoms.Lady Diana Manners was apparently not alone in her dislike of ragtime.Ludwig Gruener of Berlin, a German [doctor] who has devoted twenty years' study to the criminaly insane.The authority for these statements is Dr.When there is nothing done to check this form it produces idiocy'