Thanks.
I actually read up on how 3.1 hides the screen options. When I went to my page, I clicked on the ‘screen options’ pulldown and saw items like discussion, comments, slugs, etc. I thought having the ‘comments’ unchecked meant that it would not show up on my webpage.
I didn’t read the title of the pulldown which says ‘Show on Screen’, which means show the ‘option’ on my computer screen (not my webpage). And then I found out that the option to ‘allow comments’ is under the ‘discussion’ section, so I needed to put a checkmark in the ‘discussion’ box.
I actually read a topic similar to this on another post, but couldn’t understand what the person was saying. Now I understand. Again thanks.